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The ground between the lines, from firft to laft, ought to Be 

 well dug every fpring and autumn, which will much increafe. 

 the number, and promote the fpreading of the roots, and of 

 courfe the growth of tlie plants.. 



The trees -being now twelve years ofd, and in good land, will: 

 be from twenty to twenty-four feet high, and may either be 

 planted out where they are, to remain for good, or again remo- 

 ved to the fields, or any fpot of ^ood land moil convenient, and 

 planted at leafl ten feet afunder, to be ready for whatever defign 

 may be in view, or afterwards occur ; whence, any time from . 

 three to feven or eight years, they may not only be removed with 

 undoubted fuccefs, but with fuch abundance of earth adhering 

 to them, and fuch ftrength and proportion of body, as to defy 

 the rudeft affaults of the winds, even at firft planting, without 

 flacking or any other fupport; which, though an almofl imiver- 

 fal practice, is, notvs^ithftanding, the refult of ignorance, and is 

 only necefTary to fupport the defedl of good culture, by proping^ 

 trees that have been injudicioufly managed, as none of the 

 ftraight growing pyramidal trees (the deciduous kinds more par- 

 ticularly) have the leaft want of that aid, if the dire<5lions here, 

 ffiven are attended to. 



Every gardener, of the fmalleft obfervation, muft be fenlible, , 

 that the rotting of the wounded parts of old trees is the moPc 

 general caufe of their death; but from this prafbice no violence: 

 is committed, no amputation made, bvit on the young and ten- 

 der roots and branches, which immediately heal ; from whence 

 nature points out, that this procefs may be continued (parti- 

 c-ularly with the Elm) while it continues frefh and vigorous, . 

 witho.ut retarding its grovv^th in any material degree^. 



