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feet in length, and two inches in diameter; 

 then place your roots in the ditch, and dif- 

 pofe them in fuch a manner as to make a 

 floping heap, raifed in the middle, with 

 fhelving fides •> when the ditch is full, and 

 the roots are raifed in the middle, half a foot 

 above the level of the earth, you fhould twift 

 round the pole a rope of hay of about an inch 

 in thicknefs, taking the precaution not to 

 bind it too hard ; you fhould then throw the 

 earth over it, placing it, and beating it down, 

 in the manner that has been before men- 

 tioned. When the ditch is well covered in, 

 and finifhed in the form of a coffin, you may 

 then pull out the pole, the hay will remain 

 in the hole, and the exhalations, which the 

 roots throw out in fermentation, will evapo- 

 rate through that pafTage. At the end of a 

 few days, you. fhould cover this hole with a 

 bit of hollow tile, and when the fevere frofts 

 come, you ihould flop it up with a flat 

 Hone. 



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