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winter, and loofening the ground between the beds in fpring, 

 they will require no farther attention in this plantation, where 

 they fliould remain only two years. 



From thefe beds the plants may be removed to another nur- 

 fery of any good mellow deep foil : Be ftill fparing of their roots, 

 and plant them in rows, three feet and a half diftance, and 

 eighteen inches afunder in the row ; keep the ground clean and 

 mellow by labour, as has been \lirec5led, giving them plentifal 

 waterings in dry weather, during the firft fummer, and let them 

 continue here three years. 



The culture directed having been obferved, thefe trees will 

 now be hardy enough to defy the affaults of our fevered win- 

 ters, and, being about fix or feven feet high, will be of a good 

 fize for planting where they are defigned to remain. In a 

 generous deep foil, interfperfed with other trees, but not crowded 

 too near them, they will in a few years arrive at a great magni- 

 tude ; but in thin and hungry land, they make fmall progrefs, 

 though they will flower fooner. 



In America, they often grow on moifc fwampy ground ; and 

 in fuch rhave planted them here, but without fuccefs, owing, 

 I fuppofe, to our long wet winters rotting their tender roots 

 and fibres. 



They do not, like many other Forefl-trees, admit of bcin^- 

 planted to advantage at a great fize, but they might undergo an- 

 other remove more than has been here mentioned, to the height 

 of ten or twelve feet, which I have done with great fuccefs. 



