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ferving alfo to prune off lateral 

 Branches, which would retard their 

 upright Growth; and where you 

 find any that are difpofed to grow 

 crooked, either by their upper Bud 

 being hurt, or from any other Ac- 

 cident, you may, the Year after 

 planting, in March y cut them down 

 to the lovvermolt Eye next the Sur- 

 face of the Ground, which will caufe 

 them to make one ftrong upright 

 Shoot, and may be afterwards train- 

 ed into good ltrait Trees : but this 

 mould not be practifed, unlefs the 

 Plants have abfolutely loll their lead- 

 ing Shoot ; for although the Stems 

 of the Trees mould be very crooked 

 (as is generally the Cafe with thefe 

 Trees when young) ; yet when they 

 are tranfplanted out, and have room 

 to grow, as they increafe in Bulk, 

 they will grow more upright, and 

 their Stems will become ftrair, as I 

 have frequently obferved, where 

 there have been great Plantations. 



But in doing of this, you mull be 

 careful not to difturb their Roots, 

 which, perhaps, might deftroy them. 

 Thefe Trees require no other Ma- 

 nure than their own Leaves, which 

 Ihonld be fuffered to rot upon the 

 Ground ; and in the Spring of the 

 Year, the Ground mould have a 

 flight Digging, when thefe fhould 

 be buried between their Roots ; but 

 not too clofe to the Trees, which 

 might be injurious to their young 

 Fibres. 



After having remain'd three or 

 four Years in the Nurfery, they will 

 be fit for tranfplanting, either in 

 Rows for Avenues to an Houfe, or 

 in Quarters for Wildernels planta- 

 tions ; but if you intend them for 

 Timber, it is by much the better 

 Method to fow them in Furrows (as 

 is practifed "for Oaks, &fr.)> and let 

 them remain unremoved ; for thefe 

 Trees are apt to have a downright 



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Tap-root, which, being hurt by tranf- 

 planting, is often a Check to their 

 upright Growth, and caufes them 

 to moot out into lateral Branches, as 

 is the Cafe with the Oak, Walnut, 



Therefore,where-ever any of thefe 

 Trees are planted for Timber, they 

 mould remain unremoved : but 

 where the Fruit of them is more 

 fought after, then it is cerfainly the 

 better way to tranfplant them ; for 

 as tranfplanting is a Check to the 

 luxuriant Growth of Trees, fo it is 

 a Promoter of their Fructification, as 

 may be evinced by obferving low 

 mrubby Oaks, Walnuts, &V. which 

 generally have a greater Plenty of 

 Fruit than any of the larger and 

 more vigorous Trees ; and the Fruit 

 of fuch Trees is much fuperior in 

 Taftc, though the Seeds of vigorous 

 Trees are vaftly preferable for Plan- 

 tations of Timber ; for it is a con- 

 ftant Obfervation, that, by laving 

 Seeds from Dwarf Trees or Pianti, 

 from time to time, they may be ren- 

 dered much lower in their Growth 

 than is their natural Size; but where 

 the Fruit is moll defired, then they 

 mould be taken from fuch Trees as 

 produce the Iargeit and fweeteit 

 Nuts which are commonly found 

 upon fuch Trees as fpread the moil, 

 and have horizontal Roots ; for the 

 weaker Trees being lefs capable to 

 furnim a Supply of Nourilhmenr, 

 and having a greater Quantity of 

 Fruit upon them, to which this muft 

 be diltributcd, together with their 

 Roots lying near the Surface of the 

 Ground (by which means the juices 

 are better prepared by Sun, Air, rjrV- 

 before it enters their Veffels), it is 

 certain their Juices are better digrfc- 

 ed, and their Fruits better maturated, 

 than thofe can poflibly be which 

 grow upon ftrong vigorous Tree?, 

 which have long Tap-roots running 



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