ei z 
ee ee z 
= 
ee 
152 
New Principles of Gardening. 
from Weeds, and to water them in dry Seafons, ©c. Their 
Continuance in the Seed-Bed muft be two Years; after which 
Time, they fhould be tranfplanted at proper Diftances where they 
areto remain, at two Foot and ahalf, when to make Hedges, and 
if for Standards, not nearer than thirty Foot: They love a deep, 
loamy, moift Land. Inthe Gardens of that beautiful grand Seat 
of thelate Earl of Dyzart at Ham, near Richmond in Surry, are 
many fine Hedges of this Plant, as well as a wonderful large Stan- 
dard growing at the End of the Terrace, next to the Melancho- 
ly Walk, from whofe Acorns thofe Hedges were raifed. 
The Obfervation of Mr. B-d-y’s in his New Improvements, 
Part I. Page 50. on the Tap- Roots of Trees, is entirely wrong ; 
where he fays, “ If we confult the Anatomy of Plants, we 
“ ought to be very careful, not to injure their Tap-Roots, which 
“© are always anfwerable to the leading Shoot on the ‘Top of the 
“ Tree; it is therefore reafonable to believe, that a Plant by 
© lofing of that downright Root, is in Danger of lofing alto the 
“ Top-Shoot, which is fed from it. And although a Tree may 
“ ftrike frefh Roots after the Amputation of this leading Root, 
“yet we may find by Experience that the Sap will thea pufh 
“ forth Branches in the Side of the Stem, and difcontinue its up- 
“ right Growth.” | 
Now, when a Man writes to the World with a Defign to in- 
form Mankind, ’tis abfolutely neceflary, when hefays, [kvow, or 
have found this or that Thing by Experieuce, Sc. that heat the 
fame Time fhould mention where, and when, and in what Man- 
‘ner he made thofe Experiments, with Demonitrations to prove 
the Truth thereof, which Mr. B-d-y has omitted. About ten 
Years ago, I planted a Wildernefs of Oaks, Elms, Limes, Pla- 
ranus, c. for the late Honourable Thomas Vernon, at his Seat 
in Twickenham-Park, where in feveral Parts thereof, I made 
Experiments on divers Oak-Trees planted therein; part of which 
had their Tap-Roots carefully preferved, and others pru- 
ned off; and the Confequence was thus, vz. altho’ thofe “with 
Tap-Roots were planted near to thofe without, and in divers 
Parts of the Wildernefs, whofe Land differ’d very much in re- 
fect to its Goodnels, yet in every different Kind of Land, thofe 
Trees whofe Tap-Roots were cut away, growed with much 
creater Vigour, and produced finer Perpendicular Branches than 
thofe whofe Tap-Roots were not difplaced; and indeed = “ 
eae. thofe 
