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knowledge in gardening will reward their patience and induftry^. 

 by readily paying a higher price for a handfome vigorous plant j_ 

 than for an unlhapely ftunted one : To fiich therefore I do not 

 mean to addrefs myfelf, but thofe of more ingenuous and libe- 

 ral views, r will boldly affirm, that though a. little more land 

 and labour is bellowed, there is in the end no time loft, but much 

 time faved by this operation, as, in four or five years, thefe cut 

 over will be confiderably larger than the others, with this fur-< 

 ther defirable circumftance, that, in place of being ragged, un- 

 fightly, and ill-rooted, they will be ftraight and clean-ikin'd, with 

 a much greater abundance of roots. In fhort, cutting over efta- 

 bliihes the plants, by diverting the fap to the roots, frees them 

 from the injury and concuffions of the winds, and makes them 

 produce handfome and generous fhoots, infinitely preferable to 

 fuch as are abandoned to nature and accident without this difci- 

 pline; and when feafonably pradlifed, nothing will fo much ac- 

 celerate the fuccefs of plantations for many years. 



Thus having diredled the beft methods of treating thefe plants 

 in their early ftages, and which indeed is all the culture com- 

 monly beftowed on them, for whatever purpofes they are defign- 

 ed, or at whatever fizes to be removed, I proceed to their manage- 

 ment for a fuccefiion of years, with a view ta their being tranf- 

 planted when large trees, and which, by obferving the rules 

 here laid down, they may be, with the moft certain fuccefs, to , 

 any fize, capable of being raifed and tranfported. ^ 



These trees, if planted in a good foil, having now arrived to 

 the height of fix or feven feet, the fame pra(5lice will anfwer for . 

 all . the forts of Elms.,. 



