84 A TREATISE OF 



uppcrmoft roots may, when fixt therein, 

 ftand full as high, or rather higher than 

 the furface of the border wherein they are 

 planted -, for as the borders will fettle and 

 be raifed again in a few years, were not 

 this precaution taken, the items of the 

 trees v/ould be buried. 



'Tis beft planting when the foil is mode- 

 rately dry, for then it will intermix itfelf 

 better with the roots than when it is wet, 

 neither will it be fo apt to fet hard when 

 trodden clofe ; but if the foil be too moift, 

 it will be proper to mix with it, before it 

 is applied to the roots, either dry foot or 

 coai-afiies fifted very fine, which always 

 have been kept dry -, for the earth, and in- 

 gredients applied to the roots, ought always 

 to be as fine as pofhble. When the roots 

 are all covered, let the trees that have ftiff 

 roots be fliaken up and down with the 

 hands, that the earth may pafs more readily 

 betv/een the roots, and fill all the cavities : 

 after the roots are covered to the depth 

 of three inches, let them be gently trodden 

 round, v/ithout breaking or bruifmg them; 

 then let a hillock be raifed round each tree, 

 fix inches higher than the other parts of 



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