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‘in thick Tufts upon Bogs. . 
let a little of the Wet be fqueez’d out; and in 
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(OF GARDENING ae 
fhall add fome Rules for the bringing them to 
the Ground in the beft Condition. 
~The ufual Method of Packing is with Straw 
about the Roots, and a Mat over it: but if this 
be not done with very great Care, it often fails ; 
and many Accidents will happen in Spite of the 
beft Caution. | 
Mofs is vaftly preferable to Straw upon this 
~ Occafion; and as it is every where plentiful 
enough, it fhould always be us’d. 
The Lofs of thefe Trees generally happens 
from the drying and withering of their Roots: 
this is but ill prevented by Soren ; but Mofs will 
very fecurely defend them. 
It is the Quality of Mofs to receive and retain 
Water like a Spunge ; 
when moift, it will continue fo to the End of any 
moderate Journey. It has alfo the farther Ad- 
vantage of clinging much clofer to the Roots. 
“Any Mofs will anfwer the Purpofe, by being. 
gather’d’ when full. of Dew; but there - is one 
Kind preferable. to all others. . This we have 
“nam’d, on a preceding Occafion, for its Ute in 
detaining of Moifture.. | . 
It is a white Mofs, very large, and growing 
If this be. too moift, 
the fame Manner in the other Kinds: let them be 
wound about the Roots, and plac’d between 
them; and when the Whole are. well cover’d, 
let there be Straw and Mats ut about them as 
ufual. | 
This will anfwer in the common Way of Car- 
tiage for Trees of any Size; but there is a yet 
better and more fecure Method for thofe which 
are taken ‘up fmall, and train’d for Walls. 
~ As thefe lie flat, a Hamper will hold a large 
; Parcel of them; and the beft Method will: be to 
have one made for the Size and Oe of the 
Trees. ee | 
Let the Bottom of this be ‘ett cover’'d with 
- Mofs, and the Trees then laid in, with good 
Quantity of Mofs between and among. their 
Roots: this will fecure them againft every kind 
of Danger; and they may be carry’d the longeft 
Stages in the Kingdom, and receiv’d in as good | 
Condition as if firft taken up. 
_ The Methods of taking up and carrying thefe 
Trees to their Places, with the Rules of planting 
them being thus laid down, the fole remaining 
Confideration is the pruning of the Heads or 
Branches. ‘This is a peculiar Thing in regard to 
Fruit-Trees ; and we fhall therefore fpeak of it 
particularly. 
We have obferv’d, in general, on a preceding 
Occafion, that the Top of a Tree fhould always 
be reduc’d at the Time of Planting, becaufe lefs 
throws out too many Branches, 
and being put about them . 
Nourifhinent than ufual will for fome Time be 
drawn by the Root. 
But in Proportion, as by this careful Method 
we have directed, more Roots ate preferv’d in a 
growing Condition, and more Earth is detain’d’ 
about them, a better Head may be left than 
ought to be when they are remov’d more rudely. 
With Regard to Fruit-Trees, the common 
Practice errs in leaving too many Branches upon 
them, and in cutting thofe too fhort.. .The Con- 
fequence of thus leaving a greater Number of 
Stumps than carn be needed, is, that Nature 
eularly. 
Experience is too powerful ek all the Autho-.. 
rity in the World; and this fhews that for what- 
ever Service the Trees are defign’d, whether for: 
and thofe. irre-. 
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Walls, for Dwarfs, or Efpaliers, or for common _ 
Standards, the Branches will be too many; they, 
and the cutting them out 
the next Year is but an imaginary Cure: for thofe 
which are left, will, from this, become too luxu- 
riant in ufelefs Growth, and will bloffom late and 
will {poil one another ; 
poorly, | . 
Six Inches is the common Length allow’d ; 
arid they who leave them eight think they exceed 
Difcretion ; but the Confequence is, that if the 
Branches thus fhortned be of ‘more than one 
Year’s Growth, they commonly, perifh : for their 
Buds are flat from much fhading, and often will 
not open. At the beft they expand but ‘lowly 
and imperfeétly, and the Branch fickens and de- 
cays. There muft be fome Part left for Vege- 
tation, to draw up the Sap receiv’d by the Root, 
or all will come to nothing. | 
The ftrongeft Buds. are fitteft for this Purpof, 
and thefe are fuch -as grow neareft the Ends of 
the Branches, not. thofe. toward their Infertion at 
the Stem: therefore’it is. thefe Buds which fhould 
. | be retain’d upon the Tree; and the Method is 
plain, there muft be fewer left, and thole few 
mutt be longer. 
Standard Trees are all prun’d at Planting in 
this wrong Manner, and all hurt by it, ‘tho’ in 
various Degrees, according to their Condition. 
If the Head of the Tree be but one Year 
old, this fhort Cutting brings out the new Branches 
too near; the Head will be too full, and the 
Boughs will gall one another; nor can Air get 
in to ripen the Fruit and give it a good Tafte. 
In thofe which have Heads of two or three 
Years old, the Damage is much greater: the 
bloffoming Buds and Rudiments of Spurs in many 
Kinds. are cut off by this Method. Therefore 
let the Quantity of Head reduced, be proportioned 
to the Roots loft; and let the Branches be fewer 
and longer. 
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