TREATISE on 



attended to, is yet of the greateft importance to all feedling 

 trees. 



Trom the feed-bed, at two years old, in the fpring when their 

 buds begin to fwell, thefe plants may be removed, and treated 

 as has been directed for the Pines of one year's growth ; but as 

 all the kinds of them w^ill tranfplant, at a confiderable fize, with 

 the greateft fuccefs, when properly managed, I fhall add a few 

 lines on that fubjedl, as a nurfery of the fine kinds of Firs, eight 

 or ten feet high, would be a very valuable acquifition, either to 

 a private gentleman, or a nurferyman ; and few men of fortune, 

 I believe, would fcruple beftowing a little extraordinary expence 

 to cover a naked field, flicker a new planted garden, or adorn a 

 nev7-buik houfe with fo goodly ornaments. 



These plants, being no four years old, muft be tranfplanted 

 to another fpot of good land, and placed in rows two and a half 

 feet afunder and fourteen or fixteen inches diftant in the row ; 

 water them at planting, and continue it once a week, five or fix 

 times, v^hen it does not rain, keeping the ground clear of weeds 

 in fummer, and mellow by autumn and fpring digging, in which 

 jjtuation they may remain .three years. 



From thence remove them again in fpring at the ufual time, 

 fiiortening their ftraggling roots moderately, and plant them in 

 rows four feet afander and two feet in the row, to remain three 

 years longer. 



If required larger, remove them again, and plant them at fix 

 feet afunder every way, to remain two, but not above three years 

 more ; by which time, in good land, and under the culture here 

 direded, the three fi.rft mentioned kinds will be from fourteen 



