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and therefore no length can be well affign- 

 ed, as to the roots, but it ought to be, 

 carriage confidered, as great as poffible, if 

 they are brought from a diftant nurfery, 

 or tranfplanted into fome other part of 

 the fame gai'den -, in the lad cafe there is 

 a probabihty of the roots taking with them 

 a large quantity of the adhering earth, if 

 the trees be taken up artfully. And a fruit- 

 tree, if it be required, of more than twenty 

 years of age, may be tranfplanted very fafe- 

 ly, without the lofs of life, or any of its 

 ufeful branches. 



The right method of taking up trees, 

 is to take off the furface of the earth round 

 them, fo deep as to bare the uppermofl 

 roots to a fpace proportional to the fize 

 of the trees, in order to lefien the weight -, 

 otherwife they will not be fo fit for car- 

 riage, aiid they will be in danger of being 

 broken by the weight of earth which is 

 upon them. 



When either large or fmall trees have 

 had their roots bared in the manner juft 

 before mentioned, then a trench mull be 

 dug quite round them, fo wide and 

 deep that the earth may be eafily taken 



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