74 A TREATISE OF 



of the rind and leaves, as it did before 

 they were removed, and the number of 

 veffels in the roots being lefiened, are not 

 fufRcient to keep the capillary tubes pro- 

 perly full, whereby a part or all of them 

 become ufelefs. If the whole number of 

 veffels be deftiroyed, death muft enfae, 

 and if only a part of them, ficknefs : which 

 I have very often feen ; for the rind on the 

 funny fide has been quite dead before June 

 next after planting. 



CHAP. XXIX. 



Cutting the Roots of Trees, &c. Obferva- 

 tions on the common method. 



WEAKNESS is occaficned by dif- 

 ferent errors in cutting. The firfl 

 and greateft of which is, the cutting of 

 the horizontal roots fhort, at the time of 

 planting, tho' it is done according to mofl 

 authors direflion ; but I fuppofe, when 

 they mention the cutting of roots of fruit- 

 trees, to nine or ten inches long, they only 

 mean the tap or downright roots ; for 

 fhortening the horizontal roots too much 



will 



