30 TREATISE ON 



Eebruarf, or die beginning of March, as the weather is more or 

 lefs flivourable about this time : If not ftrait'ned for land, fow 

 them in drills, as has been direcled for the Beech, but thinner ; 

 if otiierways, kt them be put in beds only eighteen inches broad, 

 with alleys the fame widenefs, and cover them about three quar- 

 •ters of an inch thick. 



The following February or March, dig the -alleys, and cut 



their roots about five inches under ground, which, with a -fharp 



ipade, may with-eafe be performed; and draw a confiderable 



quantity of the largeft plants where too thick, (which, if the 



ground is good, and has been properly dreffed and kept clean, 



mofl of them will be) ; let thefe be planted in good mellow foil, 



in drills cut out with the fpade quite perpendicular, that the plants 



may ftand upright ; let the lines be eighteen inches afmider, 



and the plants placed at eight or nine inches diftance in them; 



and here they should only remain one year, the ground being 

 tolerably good. 



In the following O6lober, when the plants will be in general 

 two feet high and upwardsj let them be raifed, both the feed- 

 lings, and thefe that were tranfplanted ; fhorten their top-roots, 

 cut off any crofs lateral branches, and remove them to ano- 

 ther nurfery, where they ought to be planted in rows, two and a 

 half feet afunder, and i 5 inches in the row, to continue two years. 



From dience remove them again, at the fame feafon, and 

 plant them in rows five feet afunder, and two and a half feet in 

 the row, where they may continue four years. 



These, in an ordinary foil, will now be from twelve to fifteen 

 feet high, and^ if required of a larger fize for future purpofes. 



