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TREATISE OK 



your futiire dcfigns ; and manage them hereafter as has been di« 

 reeled for the Ehiis. 



As it has been obferved, no deciduous tree agrees worfe than 

 this v/ith pruning at removal, to which may be added, wound- 

 ing them, by cutting off large branches, the beft method of 

 treating them, is to reduce them to their proper form by regular 

 prunings in the nurfery, particularly the feafon before they are 

 tranfplanted ; by regularly obferving which, and keeping them 

 in a proper degree of moifture, they will not be fenlibly retard^ 

 ed in their future growth. 



The forts with variegated leaves, are propagated by budding 

 them on the common kind. 



This valuable tree, for lofty efpalier hedges to inclofe and 

 warm gardens, or for hedge-rows foon to fhelter barren fields, 

 has hardly an equal, and, by retaining its leaves all winter, af- 

 fords the fame protedlion as an evergreen: It is therefore ama- 

 zing it fhould not be more univerfally planted in the cold, bleak, 

 and mountainous parts of the kingdom, where it will grow in 

 the pooreft, ftonieft, fandy, and gravelly grounds, and infinuate 

 its roots into places one would think impenetrable to any plant. 

 It is, befides, a tree of great beauty; and though the wood is 

 not fo valuable as that of fome others, it brings a price, and is 

 fit for many ufeful purpofes ; and for fuel, it is the beft of any 

 wood we have in this climate. 



