FOR EST-TREES. 



may be removed to any convenient fituation, and planted eight 

 or ten feet afunder ; when, any time after two, and not exceeding 

 eight or ten years, they may be placed where defigncd to remain : 

 And if, during that time, they have been Hcilfally pruned, and, 

 by that, brought to their proper form, carefully raifed, and mo- 

 derately watered at planting, which, in a dry fammer, may re- 

 quire being two or three times repeated, your labour with them 

 is at an end, 



I HAVE dire(5led both fpring and autumn planting for this and 

 other trees ; the reafon for which is, that tho' the autumn is pre- 

 ferable for moil of the deciduous kinds, when ftrong and well- 

 rooted, yet thefe fame kinds, planted in the autumn, or winter, 

 when young, and before they have got fufiicient roots, are apt to 

 be injured by frofi:, and fpewed out of the ground infevere feafons,. 



The caufe of To frequently remoAdng thefe trees w^hen young, 

 is, that they naturally grow with dowmight carroty-roots, tho', 

 after undergoing the difcipline here prefcribed, no plant roots- 

 better, or is more patient of tranfplanting to a large fize, 



Theue is no tree, yet known in this climate,, fo proper to be 

 planted near the fea, as the Great Maple, VNrhere I have known it 

 grow luxuriantly, after many other kinds have been tried in 

 vain; and, in a few years, their flielter will cherifh and bring- 

 forward many hardy forts, which no art v/iil otherways effecJl. 



This tree, however otherways valuable, fiiould not be planted' 

 near the houfe, or by the fides of walks that are. intended to be 

 finely kept ; for their leaves exude a fweet clammy juice that 

 entices, great quantities of infetfls,, who eat them full' of holes.,- 



