New Principles of Gardening. 
Practice is bare Theory only, vzz. *Tis fuppofed that when Trees 
are thus train’d up, they will grow taper and weak, which when 
admitted to diftribute part ot their Sap to their Horizontal or 
Side-Branches, caufes the Tree to be much thicker in Proportion 
to its Height, and confequently much itronger. Now inorder 
to provethis, I have made the Experiment on Limes and Dutch 
Elms, which are both ofa quick Growth; and that I might not 
be deceived in the Goodneis of the Land, I disbudded every 
other Tree of each Kind in feveral Rows, and at the Michzel- 
mas following I pruned the others, whofe Buds I had left on in 
the Spring, according tothe common Way. | 
In the next Spring afterwards, as the Buds began to projet 
out, I difplaced them, leaving the other Trees with theirs on, 
as I did the Year before, and in the like Manner I proceeded 
till the Michaelmas following ; at which Time I not only found 
thofe Trees, as I had fo often disbudded, much larger and ftron- 
ger Plants, but their Bodies were all fmooth and clear from Knots 
and other Deformities, as the Knife is the Caufe off. 
The only Caufe of ‘Trees being weak and flender, and hard- 
ly capable of fupporting themfelves, is the too near planting 
them in the Nurfery, not having fuch Quantity of Air as Is ne- 
ceffary fortheir Support. 
And that this may not be efteem’d bare Theory only, Iet 
any but compare the Growth of the outfide Plants of any Nur- 
fery, as is of fix or feven Years Growth, with thofe of the inward 
Parts, and the prodigious Difference of their Growth and 
Strength will be a fufficient Demonftration to prove the Truth 
of what I have aflerted. 
~ When your Trees have been thus managed for three Years, 
they muft all be taken up, and replanted again in their fame Pla- 
ces, carefully obferving to prune away all Tap-Roots and others, 
as are bruifed by the Spade. This Removalcaues them to ftrike 
frefh, whereby they get fine fibrous Roots, which had they not 
been moved, could not have had. If Trees ftand long ina Nur- 
fery, *tis feldom that they have any more than very large Roots 
without Fibres, and therefore for want of them are fubjeét to 
Mortality. Andon the contrary, if Trees are removed in the 
Nurfery every three, or four Years at longeft, ’tis very feldom 
one in fifty dies. | | 
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