FOR EST-TREES. 



ralfed in fuch abundance with lefs ceremony : To wliicli I fhall 

 only anfwer, that, in point of expence, this method is much the 

 cheapeft, as one pound of feed will produce more than ten pouiids 

 in the common wafteful way it is treated ; and, what is yet of 

 much higher importance, one thoufand. plants, thus cidtivated, 

 are of more real value than ten thoufand,. fuch as are ufually pro- 

 cured from ignorant nurferymen. 



The end of March, or beginning of April following, thefe 

 plants may be removed from the feed-bed to the nurfery ; and 

 their roots being fhortened, laid in rows, about fifteen inches di- 

 ftant, and fix or feven inches afunder in the row, watering them 

 at planting, which may be continued once a week, in dry wea- 

 ther, for five or fix weeks, when they will be paft danger ; and 

 here they ought only to continue one feafon. 



At the fame time the fucceeding year, remove them to another 

 nurfery, but now be fparing of their roots, taking away only 

 fuch as crofs each other, with fome of the ftraggling hairy fibres, 

 and fmoothing the extremity of the long ones ; plant them in 

 rows, at three feet diftance, and fifteen or fixteen inches in the 

 row ; water them when planted, keep them clear of weeds du- 

 ring the fummer, dig the ground between the rows in autumn, 

 and fpring, and, in this fituation, let them remain two years. 



By this time, in an ordinary foil, the trees will be from five to 

 fix feet high, and of a proper iize to tranfplant in large quan- 

 tities, and, in expofed fituations, on meagre hungry ground ; but 

 where beauty and fhelter are immediately required in plantations 

 near the houfe, provifion ought to be made of larger plants-s ; 



