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Winds and Air, which oftentimes exhale away, all their Moi ifture, 
and thereby perifb. : 
IF Frofts prevent the Planting of Trees after baking up, they fhould 
be kept in a warm Cellar, &c: and cover'd clofe from the external 
Air, until the Frofts are gone 5 and then, foaking their Roots, plant 
them as before direéted. 
I HAVE alveady advifed the preferving of Roots in as great a 
Quantity as can be at taking up, at which Time I muft caution you 
not to ftrain them by drawing or wrenching, &c. but take 
.. Time, dig large deep Holes, and take them up with Care. 
WHEN you purchafe Trees from a Nurfery, always obferve that the 
Sot] wherein you ave to plant them, be as good or rather better 
_ than that of the Nuvfery, and efpecially if your Trees are, not over- 
and-above ftrong ; but luxurious Trees being planted from a vich 
Narfery into a poorer Soil, are oftentimes made fruitful thereby. 
WHEN you are to prune the Roots of a Tree, hold it im your left 
Hand ith the Head behind you ; and then pruning them with a 
very Sharp Knife, the Ovi latalpa be Ph down- 
bibe Nowr}oment, than 2 the Fac f the Cus is aa: as 
often prattis d by*unskilful Gardeners. 
"TIS at the extreme Parts of the Roots, where the Cut is mad#, that 
they draw frefb Roots, which, if bruifed im cutting with a bad- 
edged Knife, or not cut at all, putrifies and. dies. 
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