New Principles of Gardening. 
oS E- GAT 2 °XVE. 
General Direttions for planting Foreft 
Trees, &c. 
per Bignefs, fit to be tranfplanted in the Park, Foreft, 
Wildernefs, &c. they are to be tranfplanted in the 
following Manner, vzz. 
If your Ground is not in general to betrench’d, which fhould 
always to be done for the Planting of Wi/derneffes, Coppice, &c. 
then fir{t fetout the Diftance as each Tree isto ftand. as is before 
direCted, and dig for each Tree a Circular Hole of ten Foot Di- 
ameter, and about two Foot deep at moit, obferving to lay 
the firft Spit of Earth by it felf, which afterwards mutt be caft 
into the Bottom of the Hole; and if ’tis a Meadow, ©c. as 
you plantin, the Turf muft be well chopp’d to Pieces with 
the Spade before the Tree is planted thereon. 
Your Hole being thus prepared, the next Work to be done 
is the pruning of the Tree, wherein obferve that you don’t 
head any Tree, and efpecially the Ozk, Walnut, Chefnut, Afb, 
Elm, Beech, &c. and that you prune away all matty Fibrous 
Roots, and fuch as are dead by the Winds, as will hinder the 
Earth’s getting to the larger: Alfo mind that your Knife ts very 
Sharp, that you cut clean, that you prune the ind of every 
Root, and cut away all that are bruifed. 
Your Tree being thus pruned, place it in the Hole as ’tis to 
ftand, and fill in the Earth equally about its Roots, and be 
careful to fee that every Root is well inclofed therewith, not 
to be hollow, &c. which caufes the Tree to perifh ; the Earth 
being firmly placed to the refpeCtive Roots, the Tree muft be 
U 
W HEN your Trees in the Nurfery are arrived to a pro- 
fecured 
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