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heads be above a year old, they are not the 

 worfe. Note, the almond, fweet chefnut, 

 and filberd, muft have fhapes hke the 

 former. 



CHAP. XXVI. 



The Method of taking up Trees and re- 

 planting them in the fame Garden. 



TREES fhould be taken up very 

 carefully, left they be injured, for 

 on this their future fuccefs depends ; tho* 

 I have feen it performed very carelefly by 

 nurferymen s labourers, v^ho only ftrike 

 down a fpade v^ith their feet round them, 

 and then with both hands pull them up, 

 not having any regard to the uncut roots, 

 which are very often broken off, or fplit 

 near the ftem ; befides, thofe that are cut 

 thro* prove very often too fhort. 



Tho' authors have dire£led that the 

 roots fnould be reduced to a certain length, 

 yet I am wxll affured, that the longer the 

 horizontal roots are left, the better they 

 are; for they chiefly abforb fuch juices 

 from the earth as promote vegetation ; 

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