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Or PL AK TING. 



SECT. VIII, 



the ground well brake for their eafy progrefs. Let the 

 hole for a tree be loofened about two feet deep, and as 

 wide as will be much more than fufficient to receive 

 the roots in their full fpread as they grow, with little or 

 no direction give:: contrary to the original one. 



Wheq the tree is to be planted, take out the earth a 

 little lower than neceffary tor the roots, at the depth 

 the tree is defigned to (land ; then dig the bottom to the 

 full fpade's depth. Trim any dead or damaged part of 

 the root clean off; thin it of the finer fibres where 

 withered, or matted thick, 5 and the more, according to 

 the time the tree has been out of the ground, for the 

 fine, //dead, ought not to be on. Trees moved onlv 

 from one pan of the garden to another, need 'have but 

 few fibres cut off, but fimt amputations are neceffary 

 to help the fooher to new roots, which (hortening al- 

 ways forces out. If the root has a tap, (or downright 

 fpur) it mould be cut to the general level of the other 

 roots, and never be left longer than a foot from the 

 higheft part of the root.. Thofe great roots that lay 

 aukward, or crollmg. mould be judicioufly rectified 

 with a [harp knife; be cautious, however, of taking 

 off much, for the head will produce itronger 

 branches in proportion to the goodnefs of the root. 

 Though it be little practiced, it may be very well to 

 apply ibme mixture, as of rofin and bees wax, to large 

 amputations ; Bow dung may do. 



The head of a tree mould be fomewhat conformed 

 to the root. Some reduction of the head may take 

 place at the time of planting : yet not all that may be 

 thought neceffary mould be taken off at firff: but let 

 alone till the fap ftirs at fpring, and then care fhould 

 be taken to proportion the head to the root • and not 

 leave on a tree too many buds, far a few ftout branches 

 are preferable to many weak Dnes. This is the or- 

 dinal-}' practice with refpecl: to wall trees, and why 

 not of all others? See articles, Orchard and Pruning, 

 Sect, Q and IS, 



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