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(fuchas old bricks broken in pieces) to keep the 

 land light about the roots, fo that they may 

 freely fpread out laterally to feek their food. — 

 No tree having a tap-root will be produdive 

 in fruit: On the contrary, in trees intended 

 for timber the tap-root ought to be preferved, 

 and encouraged as much as pofTible. In every 

 other refpe6t they fhould be treated as fruit- 

 trees, except the bricking at the bottom. 



Trees of every defcription ought to be well 

 fheltered. Shelter is as neceflary to young 

 trees as food. We well know from pradlice 

 and obfervation, that clumps of trees get up 

 much quicker than fingle trees, on fpots where 

 the foil is of equal goodnefs. Likewife in the 

 feedling-bed I would raife a great many more 

 than I intended to plant, and only fet the bell ; 

 as I have generally found the bed plants on the 

 feedling-bed ever after to retain their fuperiori- 

 ty : and had I trees to buy, I had rather have 

 the firfl: or largeft trees from the feedling-bed 

 for their price, than the culls or the after-draw- 

 ing for nothing. This obfervation holds good 

 with refpe(5t to every thing I have pradlifed. 



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