F O R E S T - T R E E S riy 



Having flood here two feafons, remove them to cinotlier nur- 

 fery, cutting away all crofs downright or fuperfluous roots ; but 

 be fparing of the other fpreading ones, and only imooth them 

 at the extremities : Plant them at three and a half feet by eigh- 

 teen inches afander, treating them as formerly, to remain three 

 years, when they will be of a proper fizc to remove where they 

 are intended to continue for good. 



Though the fifth, lixth, and feventh forts, v/ill, any of them^ 

 anfwer for ftocks to bud the other kinds on, yet of thefe the 

 White Beam will make the beft plant, tho', as has been fiiid, 

 the Pear-ftock is better ftill ; therefore, fuch of thefe as are in- 

 ten\:led to be budded, fhould be pick'd out, the mofl vigorous 

 plants of a year's growth, and planted on generous Ibil, at the 

 diitance of three feet by fourteen or fixteen inches, budded the 

 fecond fummer after removal, and Hand two years longer after 

 budding, when they may be removed for good. 



The Quick Beam with (Irip'd leaver, mull likewife be increa- 

 fed by budding, and fucceeds beil on flocks of its own kind. 



These trees in general af5e6l a ftrong moift foil, though the 

 iinefl plants of the Quick Bea^m I have ever feen, vktc on dry 

 elevated ground : Their wood is much ufed by the wheel-wright, 

 as well as for many purpofes of hufbandry, and is excellent fuel : 

 Their berries are the moil tempting bait of any fruit for the 

 black birds and thrulhes, who will never fdW of giving theix 

 company lb long as they lafl. 



