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And when they arc tranfplanted 

 into the Places where they are to re- 

 main, the necefiary Care to betaken 

 is, in taking them up, not to injure 

 or cut off their Roots, and to let 

 them be as little time out of the 

 Ground as poffible ; and when they 

 are out, to guard their Roots from 

 the drying Winds. The fureft time 

 for removing thefe Trees is about 

 the Beginning of dpril : tho' they 

 may, and often are removed with 

 Succefsat Michaelmas ; yet the Spring 

 is the more fure Seaion, efpecially 

 in moid Land. 



Molt of the Kincs of Firs may be 

 removed at the Height of fix or 

 feven Feet ; but thoie of two Feet 

 high are much better, and will in a 

 few Years get the Advantage of thole 

 taller Trees : therefore I would not 

 advife the tranfplanting of thefe 

 Trees when they arc much above 

 two Feet high, efpecially if they 

 have ftood long in the Nurfery un- 

 removed ; for then their Roots will 

 have extended theinfelves to a great 

 Diftance, whrch will be cut in taking 

 them out of the Ground ; and where 

 great Amputation is ufed, either to 

 the Roots o^Branches of thefe Trees, 

 the Quantity of Turpentine, which 

 commonly iffues from thefe Wounds, 

 will greatly weaken the Trees. 

 There is alfo another Advantage in 

 planting thefe Trees fmall, which 

 is that of not requiring Staking to 

 fecure them from being blown down 

 by ftrong Winds, which in tall 

 T rees is a great Trouble and Ex- 

 pence : and whoever will give them 

 delves the Pains to obferve how 

 much Trees of two Feet high exceed 

 in Growth thofe which are removed 

 C: much higher Growth, will, I am 

 fure, be convinced of the Truth of 

 what I have above faid- 



Thefe Trees are chiefly cultivated 

 for ever-green Plantations in Gar- 



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dens and Parks, where, by their per- 

 petual Verdure, they have a fmgular 

 Beauty in Winter ; and in Summer 

 they are not without fome Beauty, 

 from the Contraft there ib between 

 them and the other Wood?, by the 

 different Shades of Green. But as 

 neither of the Sorts of Firs are equal 

 to the Stotcb Pine in the Goodnefs 

 of the Timber, thefe are not fo pro- 

 fitable for large Plantations, which 

 are defigned for Improvement more 

 than Beauty. 



The common Spruce Fir is what 

 the white Deals are cut from. Thefe 

 Trees grow in the deep ftrong Soils 

 of Norway and Denmark ; but they 

 will grow in almoft any Soil or Si- 

 tuation in England, provided it be 

 not within the Reach of the Smoke 

 of great Cities, which is very inju- 

 rious to all thefe Sorts of Trees ; 

 nor do thefe Trees thrive near fo 

 well in dunged Land, as in frefh 

 uncultivated Soils. The Difrepute 

 thefe Trees have been under for 

 fome Years paft, has been occa- 

 fioned by their being planted too 

 clofe together, or too near ether 

 Trees, whereby the Air has been T 

 excluded from their Eranches, which 

 has occafioned mod of their Under- 

 branches to decay; fothat when the 

 Trees are viewed from the Ground 

 under their Branches, they have a 

 greater Appearance of dead than 

 living Trees. But where they have 

 been allowed a good Diftance, and 

 planted in a ftrong frefh Soil, they 

 have had their Branches quite frefh 

 within fix or eight .Feet of the 

 Ground in Trees upward of fixty 

 Feet high. Therefore thefe Trees 

 mould not be planted nearer than 

 twelve Feet apart ; nor fhould they 

 be fo near, where the Plantation is 

 more than three Rows deep ; in 

 which Cafe eighteen or twenty Feet 

 afunder will .be full near enough, 

 efpecially 



