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Th e trees from this culture will now be finely rooted, ftraight 

 and well-proportioned, and, in an ordinary foil and fituation, 

 from ten to twelve feet high; and thofe firil cut over, will be 

 the largeft and handfomeft plants. 



But to make them proper for tranfplanting at a larger fize, 

 remove them again to any convenient fpot of tolerable ground, 

 managing the roots as formerly ; and plant them in lines, eight 

 feet afunder, and fix feet in the line, watering them plentifully 

 when planted ; where they may continue fix or feven years, by 

 which time they will be about twenty feet high. 



If flill a referve of larger is wanted, remove them once more, 

 and plant them twelve feet afunder ; give them an abundant wa- 

 tering at planting, and repeat it three or four times, more or 

 lefs as the nature of the feafon requires. In this fituation they 

 may continue, ready for whatever new defign occvirs, for eight 

 or ten years, when, by a careful removal, and four or five plen- 

 tiful waterings the firft and fecond fummer, they will grow as 

 luxuriantly as if they had flood in the fame foil from the fmall- 

 eft fize, and arrive as foon at full maturity, with this advan- 

 tage, that the trees, from the regular and timely prunings they 

 have had, muft of courfe be formed to their proper fhape, and 

 will require little or no further trouble. 



Tho' moft of the deciduous trees, particularly large plants of 

 them, fucceed beft, being planted in autumn, the Oak is one 

 exception to this rule, and is found univerfally to remove with 

 more fafety, and grow more freely, when tranfplanted in the 

 fpring; therefore this feafon fliould be invariably obferved, as, 

 in wet, or even moift fwampy lands, I have often known large 



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