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igcntly, as over-watering moft kinds of young trees, is generally 

 imore deftrudlive, than giving them none at all : Let it alfo be 

 an eftablifhed principle, that, from having begun to water feed- 

 lings, or other fmall and delicate plants, you regularly continue 

 it as the weather requires, otherwife you'll do more harm than 

 good, 



I SHALL fay no more on the culture of this noble, beautiful, 

 and ufeful tree, than that it well deferves oiu' utmoft care and at- 

 tention to bring it to perfection, for which it will. amply repay us, 

 both in pleafure and profit; therefore, I again recommend, that, 

 at all the fundry removals, but particularly the latter, the utmoft 

 •care be taken to preferve as much of the old earth as poflible to 

 the roots, which will much accelerate their pufliing out frefli 

 ones immediately ; for this earth being already applied, and fit- 

 ted to the mouths of the fibres, if divefted of it, it will require 

 fome time to bring them in appetite again to a new mould, to 

 repair their lofs, furnilh their ftock, and proceed in their wont- 

 ed oeconomy without danger and interruption. 



1 HAVE often been furprifed, that fome authors of deferved re~ 

 putation, mention the French and Dutch Elm as trees of neither 

 ufe nor beauty ; and I can account for it in no other wav, than 

 their having miftaken fome other fpecies of thefe trees for the 

 true French and Dutch Elm. Having made thefe obfervations 

 early in life, the Elm being ever a favourite tree with me, I was 

 determined to be fatisfied in this point, and the mofl likely way 

 to be fo, I thought, was to have them from France and Holland. 

 This I did, and brought the French Elm from Paris, and the 

 Dutch from Rotterdam, which were the mother-plants of all 



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