FOREST-T REES. 



in the nurfery you can beft fpare, tlio' of an indifTerent quality; 

 reduce the fuperfluous roots, cutting away fuch as crois one a- 

 nother, and plant them in rows, two feet and a half aliinder, 

 and a foot diftance in the row; to remain three years, digging 

 the ground between the rows annually. 



By this time the plants will be fit enough for hedges, where 

 immediate flielter is not required, or for woods, to be mixed with 

 other young trees ; but where you intend at once to have the advan- 

 tages of warmth and ornament, a little more labour is required. 



Therefore, where you defire to have Hornbeam hedges 

 planted at feven or eight feet high, remove them from the for- 

 mer nurfery to another, and place them in rows, ten feet afunder 

 row from row, and five feet diftance in the row, training them 

 annually in the regular hedge form, but always obferving to keep 

 them light and thin in the top, when, after four years ftanding, 

 they may be raifed and planted out compleat hedges where 

 defigned to remain, and when they will have fuch abundance 

 of roots as to defy the ftrongeft winds, and require no farther 

 expence or trouble than two or three, plentiful waterings, and 

 keeping their roots clean for three or four years. 



Th e ftraighteft plants intended for trees, may, at raifing them 

 from the firft nurfery, be feparated from thofe for hedges, and 

 planted in rows, five feet afunder, and two feet diftanee in the 

 row; let them be annually pruned to their proper form, and from 

 hence they may be removed tq the places where they are meant 

 to remain, after three or four years ftanding. 



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