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to obferve, after having cut over your Elms, or indeed any o- 

 ^ ther tree, that, as foon as the young flioots appear, you {hould 

 rub off all but the moft promihng one, which will much advance 

 the growth of it. 



Being provided with fuckers grub'd up from the roots of old 

 trees, in the fpring, when the fap begins to rife, which for them 

 is preferable to the autumn, cut off all the bruifed and broken 

 roots, and trim their tops to about fix or eight inches high ; lay 

 them in drills cut out with the fpade, eighteen inches line from 

 line, and eight or nine inches in the line; give them a gentle 

 watering, and keep the ground clean and loofe about them : Ha- 

 ving flood here one year, cut them over by the ground, and let 

 them remain another, vv^hen they ought to be raifed and planted . 

 in a feparate nurfery, at double the former diftances. Such of 

 them as have made fhrong fhoots, and thick in proportion to their 

 height, may be planted at full length ; but fuch as are dvv'arfifli 

 and ill-formed, or tall and flender, muft be fliortened again, 

 more or lefs as they have good or bad roo-ts ; thofe with good, 

 roots lefs reduced in their height than the others, which ought 

 to be an invariable rule in the pruning all forts of Foreft-Trees 

 In this fituation, let them remain two, but not exceeding three- 

 years, managing them in all refpedls as the layers. 



The Canada Elm having been lately imported to Britain, they 

 are not yet arrived to any magnitude v/ith us, but- in their native 

 country they grov/ to a vafh fize. I have only cultivated them 

 for three years paft, during which time they have exceeded all 

 the different fpecies of Elms in growth confiderably, and there is 

 e,very probable appearance they will foon bccdme flately trees, in.. 



