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CHAP. VI. 



Of Tranfplanting, and Diftance. 



THe mofl: proper feafon for Tran^lanting is before the hard 

 frofts of Winter furprize you, and that is a competent 

 while before Chrijimas : And the main point is, to fee that the 

 Roots be larger then the Head , and the more ways that extends 

 the better and firmer. 



If the Stock^feetns able to ftand on its own three or four legs 

 Cas we may call 'em), and then after fettlement fome ftones be 

 heaped or laid about it, as it were gently wedging it faft, and fafe 

 from winds, (^wh'ich Jiones may after the fecond or third year be 

 removed J it will falve from the main danger : For if the Roots be 

 much (haken the firft Springy it will hardly recover it. 



You may tranfplant a Fruit-Tree almpft at any tolerable feafon 

 of the re«r, efpecially if you apprehend it may befpent before 

 you have finifti'd your work, having many to remove : Thus let 

 your Trees be taken up about Jllhallontide, (or as fbon as the leaf 

 begins to fall) , then having trimm'd and quickned the Roots, fet 

 them in a Pit, fourty, fifty, or a hundred together, yet fo as they 

 may be cover *d with mould, and kept very frefti : By the Spring 

 they will be found well cured of their wounds, and fo ready to 

 ftrike root and put forth , that being Tranj^lanted where they are 

 to ftand, they will take fuddenly, and feldom fail 5 whereas be- 

 ing thus cut at Spring, they recover with greater hazard. 



The very Roots of Irees planted in the ground , and buried 

 within a quarter of an Inch, or little more, of the level of the Bed, 

 will fprout, and grow to be very good Stocks. This and the other 

 being Experiments of our own, we thought convenient to mention. 



By the oft removal of a Wild-jiocli, cutting the ends of the 

 Roots, and dif-branching fc»newhat of the Head at every change 

 o( place, it will greatly abate of its natural wzWzfe/?, and in time 

 bring forth more civil and ingentiom Fruit : Thus Gilljfiorpers do 

 (by oft removals, and at full-Mom efpeciallyj increafe and mul- 

 tiply the leaves. 



Plant not too deep 5 for the over-turf is always richer then the 

 next Mould. How material it is to keep the coafl or fide of the 

 Stock., as well in Fruit-trees as in Foreji, we have fufficiently dif- 

 culs'd 3 nor is the Negative to be prov'd. 



For the dijiance in Fields,thej may be fet from thirty tvpo to fixty See Aph. 3^. 

 Foot, fo as not to hinder the Plough, nor the benefit of manure 

 and Ibil 5 but in hedg-rows as much nearer as you pleafe. Sun 

 and Air confidered. 



CHAP. VII. 



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