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lines. The larger fized of the two-year feedlings 

 fhould however ftand fix inches apart in the 

 lines, and only twelve or fourteen between the 

 lines, becaufe they are intended only for being 

 nurfed for one year. Indeed, they never fhould, 

 if poflible, be allowed to remain longer in the 

 nurfery than one year. 



It may be proper here to obferve, that all the 

 two-year feedlings of every kind mould be sized* 

 that is, forted according to their refpe&ive fizes, 

 previous to planting. When in the feed-bed, they 

 never rife all to an equal height ; and if they are 

 planted without being fized, this imperfection is 

 prolonged and increafed : By fizing the plants at 

 firft, we not only procure equal fized trees ulti- 

 mately, but alfo prevent any of the fmaller ones 

 being too much overtopped in the progrefs of 

 their growth, as they certainly muil be, if a de- 

 gree of equality is not originally attended to. 

 The expenfe of fizing two-year feedling plants, 

 will be more than repaid immediately by the dif- 

 ference of eafe in planting them, to fay nothing 

 of the other advantages above mentioned. Boys 

 or girls, or aged women, who at this feafon are 

 of little value in the nurfery, can perform this la- 

 bour very well in an out-houfe. 



The obfervations above made refpe&ing the 

 planting of Larches, will equally apply to the Sy- 

 camore, Beech, Afh, Mountain-am, Birch, Alder, 



and 



