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aiid in fuch a form that the cuts fliall be 

 flat upon the ground, when the tree is 

 planted upright. 



Apple-trees are not fo fubjeft to have a 

 tap-root as pears are 3 but whenever one 

 of them is met with, I would not advife 

 to have them left m.uch more than a foot 

 long ', and after the tree is raifed right up, 

 as it flood before in the hole, let there 

 be good earth put quite round it, fo as to 

 fill up the trench level with that upon the 

 roots i then let the tree remain there a year^ 

 but if the fummer proves dry, give water 

 to the roots, and likev/ife rub off all young 

 branches that may poflibly put out near 

 thofe places where others were cut off, or 

 from any other parts of the tree where 

 they are deemed ufelefs. 



In the fummer after the trees have been 

 cut, it will be very proper to prepare the 

 places where they are to be planted, in 

 fuch a manner as was directed for 

 young orchard-trees -, but thefe having 

 large roots, the holes muft be made deeper 

 than thofe for fmaller trees, and the lon- 

 ger they are made before the timxc of plant- 

 ing, the better order will the earth be in. 

 The feafons for removing trees have been 

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