s:x PREFACE. 



of repetition. If I fliould be fo, I fliall not endeavour to defend my- 

 felf, as in truth I could not eaiily avoid it ; for where the errors are 

 very grofs, and their corre6lion of fo much moment, I imagine 

 juit imprefTions of them cannot be too deeply rooted : In which 

 cafe, I flatter myfelf, a fault of this kind may probably pafs 

 as a more pardonable fpecies of bad writing, than fome others. . 



It may probably be objedled by fome, that tranfplanting large 

 trees has often been pra«£lifed without fuccefs. This is a melan- 

 choly truth, too glaring to be denied ; tho' the reafons for it 

 are no lefs obvious, — they have proceeded without judgment, 

 and their m-ifcarriages were a natural confequence. But in this 

 Treatife the former errors are correiHied, and a rational fyftem,, 

 founded on Nature, and confirmed by experience, difclofed. 



Large trees raifed and cultivated after this manner, fo far 

 from fucceeding worfe than thofe planted young, will, from their, 

 much greater abundance of roots fpreading near the furface, and 

 enjoying all the benefits of the heavenly influences, grow much 

 more freely, than luch v^^hofe roots, being deeper, are ftruggling 

 with cold, fluggifli, inanimated foil. 



When a man has made a plantation of young trees, his la- 

 bours, as has been hinted, are but begun ; but by follov/ing this 

 pra<5lice, they are ended, as the plants, being above the fize of re- 

 ceiving injury from cattle, and reduced to their proper form by 

 different prunings, require little or no further attention. 



By adopting this mode of culture too, a perfon who will at once 

 raife or purchafe as many of the better kinds of young trees as 



