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Your ground being prepared by a good digging, which on 

 this occafion I j^refer to trenching, (as deep loofe foil would in- 

 vite the roots downward, whereas the prefent fyftcm requires 

 their fpreading as much as poffible near the furfacc), raife 

 your plants carefully, with all their roots and herby fibres ; re- 

 duce the downright roots confiderably, but only fmooth with a 

 a fharp knife the extremities of the fpreading ones, and what- 

 ever earth adherds to the fibres, if the difhance is fmall to their 

 new quarters, fliould be preferved, cutting away only fome of the 

 amalleft ftraggling hairy parts ; for roots are the mouths that 

 fuck in the nouriflmient, and transfufe it to all the parts of the 

 tree. The roots thus prepared, prune away, clofe to the body, 

 all ill-placed ftraggling branches, leaving only a few of the fmall- 

 eft, to detain (as has been faid) the fap, and fwell the trunk of 

 the tree : Plant them in lines four feet afimder, and eighteen 

 inches in the line ; let them be watered, to fettle the earth about 

 their roots, and in this fituation they ought to remain two years 

 =only. 



Fr o M this nurfery remove them to another, drefling their roots 

 and bodies as at laft removal ; and plant them in lines five feet 

 afunder, and two feet in the line, Avhere they may remain three 

 years. 



Let them be again removed, and planted in lines eight feet 

 afunder, and fix feet in the line, in which fituation continue 

 them four years ; let thefe have a plentiful watering, and ob- 

 ferve that the waterings be increafed in proportion to the age 

 and fize of the trees. 



