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to fixteen, and the Silver I'ir from ten to twelve feet high. Thus 

 managed, thefe trees will rife with fuch abundant bails of earth 

 about their roots, as will prevent their receiving the lead injury 

 at removal, nor will their future growth be in the fmallefl degree 

 retarded by it. Particular directions for their tranfplantation 

 would here be unnecefTary, as the rules prefcribed for large En- 

 glifh Elm, and other deciduous trees, will anfwer for them, Jmd 

 moft others, with refpe(5l to making the pits, and preparing the 

 foil : Only it may be necefTary to obfervc, that thefe, and other 

 large Evergreens, in general require more frequent tho' gentler 

 waterings, at and foon after tranfplanting, than the deciduous 

 kinds ; — to which I muft add, that they ought not to have a 

 fingle branch taken away at this time, but, the year before, iliould 

 be reduced to their defired form, which is only pruning off their 

 under-branches a foot or eighteen inches above ground ; and, 

 after having flood two years longer, they may be further redu- 

 ced, by annually taking away a tire of branches, till their trunks 

 are cleared the intended height, which I think (in woods for 

 timber only excepted) ought never to be done above ten or 

 twelve feet from the furface, their greateft beauty confifting in 

 the graceful wave of their luxuriant branches from the top to 

 near the bottom. 



The three firft-mentioned Spruce Firs will grow tolerably 

 well in dry, gravelly, or rocky ground, but much more affc6ls 

 that which is deep, where, though very coarfe, and barren in the 

 production of vegetables, they will grow freely. 



The Silver Fir, which I have ever thought the mofi: magnifi- 

 cent tree of all the Evergreen tribe that our climate produces in 

 full perfecftion, it is in vain to plant in hot, dry, or rocky 



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