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two inches deep ; let die ground be raked linooth, and kept clean 

 and mellow during the fummer months. 



The beginning of April, the fucceeding fpr'mg^ cut them un- 

 der ground as directed for the iieech, and let them remain till 

 the Ipring after. 



From this fituation, as foon as their buds begin to fwell, let 

 them be carefully raifed, without tearing their roots or fibres and 

 ground being ready, feparate the ftraight free-growing plants 

 from the crooked and flirubby ; fliorcen any downright or bruifed 

 roots, but be very fparing of the fmall fibres ; and plant the 

 ftraight trees in one quarter of the nurfery, in rows, two feet a- 

 funder, and nine inches in the row; and the crooked ones in ano- 

 ther, at the fame diflances : Let thefe plants be as little time as 

 poilible out of the ground ; for this purpofe, raife few of them at 

 a time, and if you have the command of four men, they will 

 fuddenly difpatch a great number of them, that is, by one man 

 raifmg the plants, another pruning them, and giving them to the 

 planters, and two planting. 



If the land is good, and the feafons have been kindly, the 

 ftraight plants may be removed in two years ; but when either of 

 thefe circurnfiances is otherways, they may continue three fea- 

 fons. 



Tf e crooked and brufliy trees, having flood two years in the 

 nurfery, muft be cut over by the ground, and remain two years 

 longer ; and obferve, that, as foon as their Ihoots are four or five 

 inciies long, you pinch off all but the molt promiiing one ; from 



