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have not been tranfplanted feafonably, and otlierways properly 

 cultivated. 



In removing thefe plants, either from the feed-bed or from 

 one nm'fery to another, while young, I mufl here advife a 

 hmple and eafy precaution may never be omitted, which is, to 

 have fhanding by you a tub with water and earth, mix'd to fuch 

 a confiftence, as that a conhderable quantity of it will adhere to ' 

 the roots of the plants : The moment they are raifed, let them be 

 plunged in the tub as deep as they flood in the ground ; and if 

 they continue for feveral hours in this fituation, it will be fo 

 much the better, as in that time they will imbibe a quantity of 

 moifture fufficient to enable them to proceed in a growing ftate,, 

 and refifb the drought till they have ftruck root, when they will 

 fliift for themfelves. By attending to this pradlice, I have oftea 

 fiicceeded in the removal of Firs in unfavourable feafons j but 

 where it was negletfled, they have generally been cut off. 



Tho' I have recommended the removal of the Scots Fir or 

 Pine at a year old, yet I mean that Ihould be underftood under 

 certain reflridlions, and only pradlifed when the feeds are early 

 fov^n on good foil, as here diredled, and when from a favourable 

 feafon they have become good well-grown plants ; but if other- 

 ways, and thefe rules have not been obferved, but the ground 

 poor, the fowing late and too thick, the plants will be finall, 

 ftunted, and tmable to bear tranfplantation, fo muft of courfe 

 remain another year ; but even then, they will be much inferior 

 to thofe of a year old fown feafonably on good land and mode- 

 rately thin. There is but one cure I know of for thick-fown 

 ilunted plants, which is, going carefully over the beds when a 



