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roots moderately, and cut away fuch as crofs each other : If the 

 layer is plentifully rooted, and thick-bodied in proportion to its 

 height, fo as not be fliaken or difplaced by the winds, it may be 

 planted at full length ; but fuch as are tall and flender, (which, 

 even laid by the beft hands, will be the greatefl part) muft be cut 

 over, from fix inches to a foot high, more or lels in proportion 

 to the quantity of their roots ; plant them (thefe at full length 

 feparate from the others) in lines, three feet afunder, and fifteen 

 inches diflant in the line, giving the ground the ufual culture 

 of hoeing and digging as for other trees ; and here let them re- 

 main three years. 



From thence remove them, at the fame feafon as formerly, to 

 anothei" quarter of ftout ground, dreffing their roots, and prun- 

 ing their bodies, as directed for the Englilli Elm, and plant them 

 in lines, five feet afunder, and two feet in the line ; repeat the 

 proper pruning in February every feafon, as alfo fpring and 

 autumn digging ; and, in this fituation,. they may continue four 

 years. 



Remove them again to another nurfery, flill in good deep 

 ground, and plant them in line&, feven feet afunder, and three 

 feet in the line, annually giving them the neceiTary pruning, and 

 digging the ground between them ; where they may remain four 

 years, and no longer. 



By this time the trees, being eleven years old, will, if the foil 

 has been middling, and the culture directed given them, be ge- 

 nerally above twenty feet high ; but as a fuccefTion of the good 

 Hnds of large trees, that move with fafety, will always be ul^n'^ui 



