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I have jiift before given directions for 

 the raifing of trees in the nurfery, but 

 there is fomething to be obferved in chufing 

 them to plant in places where they are de- 

 figned to remain. 



It is good to take fuch as are free from 

 mofs, whofe rind is of a bright colour, 

 and fuch as have made ftrong fhoots the 

 year before, at leaft eight of them, at a 

 foot from the ground, with one young 

 branch going forward to lengthen the ftem ; 

 this fize is large enough to carry to places at 

 a gre^t diftance. But if a tree be taken 

 from the nurfery with ten branches, it is the 

 better; for the greater number of branches 

 there are taken off at the time of replant- 

 ing, with the greater vigour will the tree 

 grow after. 



Note, If trees are not to be met with in 

 a nurfery of the Ihape defired, choofe fuch 

 as may be moft eafily brought to them. 



In taking up thefe trees, there ought to 

 be care taken to preferve as great a length 

 of roots as poffible; and likevvife packed 

 in fuch a manner, as to prevent their be- 

 coming dry in the carriage -, but if a tree 

 is only to be removed in the fame ground, 



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