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OF PLANTING. 



SECT. VIII. 



Litter fhouldbe laid near a yard round, and five or fix 

 inches thick, to keep -off fevere weather. Where plenty 

 of mofs is to be had, it is a neat material to lay about 

 xoots to keep them from drought. If litter alone i-s laid 

 about trees, (particularly againft an old wall) mice are 

 apt to harbour in it, and bark them : where fuch cover- 

 ing rs ufed for winter, move it early in the fpring, and 

 fupply the place with turf, which will be proper to con- 

 tinue all fummer. 



Watering is to take place if trees are planted early in 

 -autumn, which fettles the mould about the roots, but 

 let them not be fodden with it. Laic in fpring water 

 will be fafely and necefTarily applied, and muft be re- 

 peated alfo if dry weather ; but yet with caution, for 

 many new planted trees have been injured (if not killed) 

 by keeping the roots wet. Late planted trees fhould 

 be occasionally watered throughout the fummer : thofe 

 planted in winter need none., if the fpring be not very 

 <iry. 



In planting watt trees, (the "budded part outwards) 

 try in the hole which way they will belt Hand againlt 

 the wall ; and if they have a head defigned to remain for 

 training, place it carefully for the branches to be laid to ; 

 but keep the tree as far from the wall as may be, (fup- 

 pofe eight inches) that the roots may have the more 

 room to ftrike behind ; cut off, or fhorten much, ail 

 roots whofe direttion is ftraight towards the wall. Nail 

 the tree to it, that wind may not difturb the roots* 



In planting Jlandards, it will be proper to fix a Jiake 

 near the ftem to fallen the tree, in order to prevent the 

 roots being difturbed by wind, which prevents their 

 ftrikitig out new fibres ; rockingabout opens the ground 

 alfo about the ftem s and admits frolt, by. which a tree 

 is foraetimes loft, or fucceeds badly* This flaking is 

 beft done while the holes are open, and the roots of 

 the ires feen, as by driving a flake in afterwards, it 

 might damage fome' principal root, and the hurting si 

 root is to be avoided as much as bruifmg a branch. 



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