naked Part. 
-Source of the ill Succefs of Plantations. 
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POMONA, 
HE Gardener is employ’d, according to 
our Directions in this Part, in planting 
Fruit-Trees where they are wanting; and we fhall 
here add, to the Directions given on that Head, 
~ fome ufeful Cautions. 
In the firft Place, if the Care we have directed 
to be taken of thefe Trees, while in the Nurfery 
have been obferved, they will be ready to come 
up freely, and in proper Condition. 
The great Article in that Part of the Ground, 
is that digging between them which we have men- 
tioned; for if they be left in an undug Soil, 
their Roots will fpread every way to a Diftance, 
and few Fibres will be produc’d near the Stem. 
In this Cafe, when they come to be taken | 
up, the Roots are cut off at a {mall Diftance; 
and all that comes with the Tree is their thick 
This will hold no Earth about it,’ 
-nor will any Part of it readily draw Nourifhment. 
Yet this is the Method too commonly us’d; 
whence the Trees, if planted in Autumn, rot; 
This is one great 
But 
the Pur- 
_chafer is told thefe ‘Things. will happen ; and the 
and, if in Spring, wither. 
they find no F ault who fell the Trees: 
Nurfery-Man has a new Demand. . 
On the other Hand, when the Ground ‘4 is fre- | 
} quently dug between and round about thefe Trees 
while in the Nurfery, the Shoots of every Root 
being frequently fhorten’d, Fibres are. itruck out 
in Abundance near the main Stem; and thefe 
_will hold together a good Ball of Earth, for 
the taking them up at a Time for Tranfplanting, 
_ and will furnifh Nourifhment till the new Roots 
are ftruck. | 
For this Réaion’ let ¢hé Owner, if they be 
_ rais’d in his Seminary at Home, fee the Earth be 
doing. it. 
dug at Times about them; and if*purchas’d in 
ae aeant Nurfery, let him take Care they are. found 
in a Piece of Ground that has been dug. 
Next to this Article of their being in a proper 
Condition for taking up, comes the Manner of 
The Succefs of the Plantation in a 
great Meafure depends upon this; and nothing 
is in general done fo carelefsly. 
A Spade is ftruck down in four or five Places 
round about them, and then they are pull’d or 
twifted up. Thus, many of the Roots not cut by 
- the Spade, are crack’d and torn, and the reft 
parted but roughly. Befide, this Method cuts 
off all the Roots too fhort. °Tis expeditious ; 
but in a Garden there is no Need for this Hurry ; 
and it always hurts the future Growth. 
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or the FRUIT-GARDEN. 
The longer’ the Roots are left the better the 
Tree will grow; and the lefs they are injured the 
quicker it will receive Nourifhment. 
~ Let the Gardener pare away the Surface about 
‘the Tree he is to take up, till he difcovers the 
principal fpreading Roots: then dig a Trench 
round the Roots, at fuch Diftance from the Stem 
as is proportioned | to the Bignefs of the Tree: 
| the larger it is, the longer the Roots will be re~ 
| quir’d to nourifh it. 
Let him take away the Mould from under the 
| Tree,and obferve to leave as much as will hang about 
the Roots; which, according to our Manage 
ment, will be a very confiderable Quantity. chen 
let him cut off the Roots at this Diftance with a 
fharp Knife; and by this Time let the Hole be 
open’d to receive the Tree ; 
Ronis when cut. 
 Inftead . of pulling ‘up the Tree, let a 
Hand-Barrow be carefully drawn under it; and 
upon this let it be carry’d to the Place: then let 
-it be again examined in every Part of the Root ; 
and if any of the Ends be ragged, bruis’d, or 
broken, let them be cut off with « a fharp Knife, 
-floping downwards. | 
After this, the Confideration comes of fixing 
them i in’ the Earth, and this is to be done Ina 
different ‘Manner from the common. — 
When they have been taken up with this C are, 
they bring,. in .a_ great Meafure, their own 
and fhaking them and violent 
treading down, would only force it off, and ren- 
‘der the former Care fruitlefs. 
Let the Hole be. about fifteen Inches deep, 
and the Surface at the Bottom of it well broken. 
Let the Tree, with its Ball of Earth, be fet care- 
fully . upright in it; and as. there will be a 
Space every way about it, let this be ld 
with the Mould firft thrown out of the Hole, 
obferving to get it into every Crevice. This js 
eafily done, when Time is taken for the Planting ; 
and but little is put in at once. 
Then let the Mould be brought up to fome finall 
Thicknefs over the Surface of the Lump or Ball 
brought with the Root, and give a‘ gentle Wa- 
tering. 
This is the Methed of planting with Security, 
_when the Trees are brought only out of one Part 
of the Ground to another, or from a very near 
adjoining Nurfery ; but as it frequently happens 
that they muft be purchas’d at a Diftance, we 
hall 
making it at leaf 
haif a Foot wider than hg full Extent of the | 
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