OAK-TREE. 
where thefe trees grow naturally, a acorns are, in times of 
ees ground into flour, and m ead. 
e Spanifh Oak grows to be as riage a a tree as our com- 
inferior to it in ftatelinefs and 
ne light green colour, an 
a and with fee a. — ae a is plenti- 
over one 
acorn, nae they are pre ne large, narrow at the bottom, 
but broader Bight and have their top flat. The acorns are 
a have the refemblance of a lyre. ing- 
pointed, cage? jagged, and ftand as lends rectal 
on the bra s of this fort alfo are {maller and 
prickly, be the a Srevonionily cae than thofe of 
the ae par 
y be Hee that there are fome other forts men- 
; butt pa are not of 
an In thefe beds the acorns fhould be placed in rows 
one foot afunder, and about two inches diftance in the rows, 
covering them about two inches thick with the fame frefh 
earth. In the {pring, when the plants sig ia to appear, they 
muft be carefully . cleared from weeds ; if the feafon 
refhed now and then Sith a little water, 
In thefe beds the 
ots, to prevent the earth from i ae 
dig the ground between the rows every {pring ; in doing of 
which, fuch roots as extend very far from the trunk of the 
trees fhould be cut off, which will render them better for 
tran{planting again: alfo prune off fueh fide-branches as ex. 
tend para very far, and would retard the upright fhoot ; 
but n any means ail the {mall lateral branches, fome of 
which 2 are abfolutely neceflary to be left in, to detain the fap 
for the augmentation of the trunk: for, where trees have 
been thus clofely pruned, their heads have overgrown their 
bodies, fo that they have bent downward, and become 
crooked. 
After thefe trees have remained in the nurfery three o 
four years, they will be large enough to tranfplant to the 
places where they are to remain: for it is not proper to let 
them grow very large before they are planted out, as they 
are very dgrbeiaat trees to remove when old, or after they 
have taken deep r 
The be cn i this work is in the autumn; at which 
efe trees, when newly removed. 
» to prevent their being fhaken 
and diftur aide which would retard their 
rooting. in tranfplanting of the trees, by no means cut 
their heads, which is too much praétifed: all that thould be 
done is to cut off an a or ill-placed branches, which 
fhould be taken off clofe to the place where they are pro- 
duced. But there can be no ges eater injury done to thefe 
trees than to fhorten their fhoots; for when the leading bud, 
which is abfolutely neceffary to "draw and attraét the nou- 
rifhment, is taken off, the branch often decays entirely, or, 
at leaft, down to the next vigorous bud. The trees, thus 
raifed and managed, when planted in a proper foil, grow to 
a confiderable magnitude, and are very proper for a wilder- 
yc P 
have es the leaft ca of decay : 
to cultivate thefe trees for tim 
ey 
which are tran{planted is not near fo 
corns. In this bufinefs, the firft thing to be 
that of fencing the ground very well, in order to 
eep en cattle, seta and rabbits; for if thefe animals can 
get into the groun 0 
