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them from their mothers, trim away only the fmall hairy fibres, 

 that are bruifed and broken, which are apt to mould, and en- 

 danger the tree ; but be very fparing of what is frefli and found, 

 Ihortening them and the principal roots moderately, tho' many 

 fafhionable gardeners make a little too free in this point, by cut-, 

 ting moft of them away, endeavouring to Ihow their addrefs, by 

 making trees grow without them ; keep them as little time as 

 pofTible out of the ground ; cut them over about a foot in height, 

 and plant them in lines three feet afunder, and eighteen inches 

 diftance in the line : Here let them remain two feafons, when 

 they fliould again be cut over, in the beginning of March, within, 

 two or three inches of the furface : By this time the plants will 

 be well rooted, and, the fucceeding fummer, in a good foil and 

 temperate feafon, they will produce ftraight clean flioots, four 

 and five feet high. In March following, prune away all ftrong 

 lateral and ill-placed branches clofe to the ftem, but leave feve- 

 ral of the fmaller Ihoots, more or lefs as the plants are thick or 

 flender bodied, to detain the fap, and augment the trunk of the 

 tree ; the not obferving which, is. one great caufe of feeing fo 

 many trees growing, without proportion, to great heights, with 

 flender bodies and heavy tops, unable to fupport themfelves, but 

 bending almoft to the ground with every guft of wind, from 

 which, of'courfe, they never can arrive to magnitude or beauty.. 

 Here thefe trees may remain another year, when, if they are in- 

 tended to be made fit for tranfplanting at large fizes, they mufl; 

 be removed to another nurfery, and planted at greater diftances : . 

 But before I proceed to that, I, fliall direcfl their culture from 

 fuckers, and of the Scots Elm from feed, till they are fit to be 

 treated in the fame manner as thofe, and when the fame ma-- 

 nagement v/ill anfwer all the kinds. It may here be neceffary 



