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it ought to be well ccnfidered in what cafes 

 it is ferviceable. The roots will certainly 

 be leilened by being removed ; if they be 

 taken up ever fo carefully, fome of the 

 fmall ones wqll be broken off, and others 

 in carriage become fo dry, that their 

 minute veffels can no longer be ferviceable 

 to the plants they belonged to ; then con- 

 fequently, the quantity of juices which the 

 roots that are left can abforb, muft be lefs 

 than the quantity abforbed by all the 

 roots before they were taken up; for 

 which reafon it will be very neceffary to 

 leffen the branches in proportion, as near 

 as can be reafonably conjeftured, to the- 

 veffels tliat are loft at the roots : if this be 

 done, the trees thus removed will continue 

 their growth, except fhaken by the wind, 

 or fome other outward obftruction : but 

 if all their branches remain upon them, 

 if they live, they will make but very flow 

 progrefs in Ihooting the next year, tho* 

 planted in the moft proper foils 3 an ill 

 ftate of health will enfue, hardly ever to 

 be altered or cured by even the moft pro- 

 per treatment, for the fun will caufe them 

 to exhale their juices as faft thro' the pores 



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