TREATISE ON 



thofe kinds in that way, and proceed to the befl methods of 

 their culture, from the mother, till they arrive to the height of 

 thirty feet or upwards. 



Having prepared a fpot of ground, neither too light and 

 thin, nor too moift and, heavy, but frefli and mellow, that h<as 

 been well trenched the preceding year, and all root-weeds and 

 ftones carefully pick'd out of it, and that has been a year or two, 

 employed in leafy kitchen-garden crops, dig it well, and level it in 

 the beginning of October : Then, if you have them not yourfelf, 

 procure from a nurferyman your ftools, or mother-plants ; let 

 thefe, if. you can get fuch, be trees that have been cut over clofe 

 by the ground two years preceding, but that have not yet been 

 layed; cut all their branches over again, two or three inches a- 

 bove the lafl cutting, from which they will produce a great 

 number of clean young flioots the following filmmer ; plant 

 thefe at about eight feet afunder in the Quincunx order, which 

 will fill the ground more equally than by planting them in 

 fquares ; then give them a gentle watering, to fettle the earth a- 

 bout their roots. 



If you cannot procm'e fnch a.s have been cut over vv4th a view- 

 to making mother-plants of them, chufe from the nurfery found 

 vigorous trees, of about fix or feven years growth ; and if they 

 have been two or three times tranfplanted, they will be fo much 

 the better, as, by having abundance of roots, they will produce 

 plenty of firong fojincl branches : Cut them over flanting, eigh- 

 teen inches or two feet above ground ; then make a trench long 

 enough to receive them lying on their fide, floping fo as the 

 root may be covered, fix or feven inches, and three or four inr 



