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 for if thefe are left on, they foon grow mouldy 

 and perifii, frequently injuring the new fibres 

 which are fent out from the roots. After the 

 trees are planted, their branches fliould be 

 faftened to the wall, pale, efpalier, or (lakes, 

 to prevent their being loofened by the \vinds ; 

 and fome mulch fhouid be laid upon the fur- 

 face of the ground about their roots before 

 winter, to prevent the frofl from penetrating 

 to them ; but this mulch need not be laid 

 about the trees, until there is danger of hard 

 froft ; becaufe, where the mulch is laid about 

 them early, and pretty thick, it will keep out 

 the autumnal rains, and thereby do more hurt 

 than good. 



Plant Goofeberries, Currants, Rafpberries, 

 and Strawberries, that they may take root be- 

 fore winter ^ for many of thofe which are 

 planted at this feafon, ^wall produce fruit the, 

 following fummer ; whereas when they are 

 planted in the fpring, they have feldom ftrength 

 enough to produce any (or at leaft very few) 

 until the fecond year. 



You may now tranfplant flocks of all kinds 

 of friiit.into the Nurfery, to graft or bud 

 the moft generous kinds of fruit upon -, in 

 doing of which, if you obferve to mulch the 

 ground about their roots before winter to keep 



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