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three feet and a half afunder, and eighteen inches didance in 

 •the line : Let them get a plentiful watering at removal ; cut 

 away the extremities of their roots, with all ill-placed over- 

 crowded branches, and let them continue here three years. 



From this remove them to another nurfery, and plant them 

 in lines fix feet afunder, and three feet in the line, where they 

 may ftand fix or feven years without removal, if chofen, as 

 this tree naturally produces abundance of roots with little cul- 

 ture. In this nurfery let the ground be annually dug, as for 

 other trees, and regularly pruned to the form you would have 

 them : By obferving which, after you have planted them out 

 for good, your labour is properly over, as they will require 

 little or no pruning ever after, but advance in a regular "and 

 i>eautiful manner, without the affiftance -of art. 



The proper feafon of tranfplanting this tree is in the month 

 of March, when, and during the fummer months, if the feafon 

 is dry, they, ought to be plentifully watered, partictiiarly if the 

 foil is light and thin ; for though this is a very hardy plant, 

 yet, by removing them in autumn or winter, if the feafon fliould 

 prove very fevere, the extremities of the preceding fummer's 

 ihoot are fometimes blafted, which disfigure them a little the 

 Succeeding year„ 



The Plataniis will grow in any tolerable foil, but they natu- 

 rally delight in a moift deep ground ; therefore, when planted 

 on that of an oppofite quality, they Ihould be plentifully Water- 

 ed for feveral fummers, which they will gratefully acknowledge, 

 by the luxuriatice of their growth. 



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