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tice, the trees nearly keep pace with one another in fize, bu't 

 which not obferved, many are fmothered or Hunted by being 

 overhung, to the great injury and deformity of the nurfery; and 

 indeed this rule ought to be extended, not only to nurferies, but 

 more particularly to fuch trees as are planted out where they are 

 to remain. 



These plants having been carefully raifed from the feminary 

 v/lth all their fibres, fliorten their top-roots, and commit them 

 to the nurfery, the well-grown in 06tober, but the fmaller not 

 till February, left the winter's frofl fpew them out of the 

 ground : Plant the largeii in rows two and a half feet afimder, 

 and a foot diftance in the row, where they may remain two 

 years ; but let the fmalier be laid in beds one foot row from row, 

 and about fix inches in the row, to Hand one year only, when 

 they may be treated as the larger feedlings, and like them ftand 

 two years longer. * 



The Englilh Elm with flrip'd leaves, may be grafted on any 

 of the Elms, though on the plain Englifli they make the hand- 

 fomefl plants ; but in order to preferve their orig;inal variegation, 

 they ought to be planted on a poor light foil, as in deep rich 

 ground they lofe much of that beauty, and fometimes turn quite 

 plain, though the moft efFe6lual method I have ever found for 

 preferving the colours of this and many other ftrip'd plants, is 

 to propagate them from l^iiyers of trees that are richeft in the va-. 

 negation, and which will continue fo much better than fuch as 

 have been grafted on plain ftocks. 



Besides the common methods of ral'iing Elms from layers, 

 fuckers and feeds, there are many propagated, by grafting and 



