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the mafs. Being placed at confiderable diftances 

 from one another, they are of courfe planted in 

 prepared pits or holes, fuitable to their refpedttve 

 iizes. Such plants are nurfed and removed at a 

 very confiderable expenfe ; and it accordingly be- 

 comes neceflary to beftow a correfponding degree 

 of pains in the preparation of the foil for them. 



In cafes where the foil is light, deep, and re- 

 markably rich, the leaft care will be neceifary ; 

 and in cafes where it is ftiff, thin and poor, the 

 more care will be requifite in the preparation. 

 In the former cafe, it will generally be fufficient 

 to form the pit, a few weeks before planting, of a 

 width and depth correfponding with the fize of 

 the plant, keeping it fully large however ; where- 

 as, in the latter cafe, the better part of the fur- 

 face-earth mould be taken out, and laid by itfelf, 

 in order to be mixed with the better foil to be 

 brought. The pit mould then be made three or 

 four inches deeper and wider than neceffary tp 

 hold the intended tree j and the crude foil taken 

 therefrom mould be rejected. k The fpace dug-out 

 mould be rilled up with the good foil broughr; or 

 at leaft three or four inches of it mould be laid 

 into the bottom of the hole. The reft mould then 

 be intimately mixed with the better furface-earth 

 dug out as above ; referving, however, as much 

 of it unmixed as will ferve to cover the fmall 

 fibres of the plants, along with that put into the 

 bottom of the pit. 



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