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trees, remove them to another quarter ; fliortcn then- top-roots 

 witha fliarp knife, fmooth and cleart, fparing their fpreadlng fibres, 

 and keeping them as fliort time as pofTible out of the ground, to 

 keep thefe fibres frelh, and prevent their moulding ; plant them 

 in lines, two and a half feet afunder, and one foot diftance in 

 the line, keeping them clean in fummer, and pointing over tliC' 

 ground between the lines fpring and autumn, when any crofs 

 ill-placed branches may be pruned off ; and in this Htuation 

 let them remain two years. 



Remove them carefully, by taking up their whole fibres, to 

 another frefla quarter of the nurfery, ftill obferving to fliorten 

 their top-roots, to cut off fuch as crofs each other, and fmooth 

 the ends of the fpreading ones, which will now be ftronger and 

 more numerous ; at the fame time, prune away any ill-placed 

 branches from their bodies and tops ; which being done, plant 

 them in lines four feet afunder and two feet diftance in the 

 line, where, managing them in other refpedls as directed for 

 the former nurfery, let them continue three years. 



By this time thefe trees will be of a proper age and fize, ei- 

 ther for ornamental plantations in avenues, clumps in parks, the 

 wildernefs, or in the orchard way for fruit ; but it may be ne- 

 ceifary here to obferve, that the fhade of the Chefnut, like that of 

 theAfh, is obnoxious to other plants, and that they fliould therefore 

 be placed in thickets, or other detached plantations, by themfelves. 



Th e ground intended for a confiderable plantation of fruit- 

 bearijig Chefnut trees, fhould have three or four plowings the 

 preceding fummer and winter ; and if one good digging is ad- 

 ded a Uttle before planting, it will be a great improvement to 



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