122 TREATISE ON 



Tk e following fpring, let the fmall plants that remained in 

 the pots where fown, be carefully flmken out of them, and divi- 

 ded fo as not to injure their tender roots and fibres ; cut away 

 with a fliarp knife the extremities of their downrij^ht and ftra - 

 gling roots, and put them in feparate pots of the fame fize ; 

 plunge tliem again with the others that were unpotted the pre- 

 ceding fummer, in a frelh tan-bed, till the month of July, by 

 which time they will have made vigorous flioots, and the pots be 

 full of roots ; harden them by degrees, aiid treat them as in the 

 former year ; only, as. the plants will be much ftronger, and of 

 courfe more hardy, they may be more fuddenly expofed to the 

 open air, and need not fo much protection tlie following winters^ 

 even in hard weatliex. 



When the fap begins to rife, the fucceeding fpring, carry 

 thefe pots to the quarter of the nurfery where you intend to plant 

 them,, which fhould be as nearly as you can fuch a foil as de- 

 fcribed for the feedlings, and flieltered a little by trees or hedges; 

 make pits with a fpade,, at three feet diftance by two, as deep 

 and fomething wider than the pots, from which fliake them 

 carefully out with their whole bulk of earth, which may eafily 

 be done without injuring their fmallefi: root ; place them up- 

 right, and no deeper than they have flood before ; give them a 

 plentiful watering ; prune away the under branches, and any 

 others that are ill-placed, and fix a ftrong flake by each of them 

 that inclines to be crooked, to which tye the leading flioot ; and 

 in this fituation let them remain two years, digging the ground 

 about them in antumn and fpring, and continuing to prune a- 

 way all fuperfluous ill-placed branches, when you may tranfplaiit 

 them to the places where they are meant to remain for goodu. 



