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firft year, and likewife produce ftrong 

 branches from their roots, fit for bearing 

 the fecond year. 



The roots of all muft be examined be- 

 fore planting, and thofe fibres which are 

 become dry and dead muft be cut ofF^ but 

 the ftrong roots, if alive, fliould only have 

 fuch ends taken off fmooth v^ith a knife, 

 as were cut by the fpade in taking them up. 



I have obferv'd rafberries planted about 

 half a yard from each other, and fome- 

 times nearer, upon bed^ of four feet broad, 

 though with a fpace of two feet between 

 each bed 3 and in a very few years, the rif- 

 ing branches, and thofe bearing fruit, de- 

 prive each other of the greateft part of the 

 benefit which the fun offers to both^ for 

 which reafon, I choofe to plant them at 

 three feet apart in the quincunxes order. 



The manner of placing them in the 

 ground, is the fame as diredled for dwarf- 

 trees of the fmaller forts 5 and if the firft 

 fpring and fummer, after they are planted, 

 fliould prove dry, they v/ill require to be 

 watered three times a week, and the num- 

 ber of the young branches rifing from the 

 roots fliould be examined in fummer; and 

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