NOV.] PRUNING NEW LIFTED PLANTS. 52! 



PRUNING NEW LIFTED PLANTS FOR THE 

 FOREST. 



If the dire&ions given in July and August re- 

 fpecling pruning young plants in the lines have 

 been attended to, little or no pruning will now 

 be required, excepting any negleded branches on 

 the bole, and fuch of the large roots as have 

 been wounded in taking up. Wherever they have 

 been bruifed or coarfely cut by the fpade, they 

 fhould be fhortened in to the found parts of the 

 root fo hurt. 



But wherever the pruning in the lines has been 

 neglected, fee that it be done before thefe are fent 

 to be planted in the foreft ; and let the pruning 

 be peformed with attention to the directions al- 

 ready given (p. 435.) 



LIFTING SEEDLINGS. 



The feafon is again arrived when you may 

 commence the lifting of deciduous feedlings. 

 Exercife all due care to preferve every root. We 

 have before deprecated the plan of cutting in the 

 roots of young feedling trees. Several kinds of 

 thefe, as the Oak, the Chefnut, and probably the 

 Beech, may require to have their tap root fhort- 

 ened 5 but it fhould be done as fparingly as pof- 



fible, 



