TREATISE ON 



The following fpring, prepare another fpot in the fame man- 

 ner as for the feed, but let the compoft foil be twelve or fourteen 

 inches deep, having cut off the points of their downright roots 

 with a very fharp knife, which, being tender, w^ould other- 

 wavs tear their fibres ; immerfe them in fuch palp as has been 

 directed for the Pines and Firs, about half an hour, and plant 

 them in beds eighteen inches by a foot afunder. If thefe beds 

 are hooped acrol's, and a mat thrown over them during the heat 

 of the dav, till their roots have ftruck, and their leaves begin to 

 expand, it will much accelerate their growth ; and during any 

 fevere ftorm the fucceeding winter, this ought ftill to be repeated. 

 It will likeways be neceffary, the firfl fummer, to draw a little 

 earth to the ftems of the plants, as mentioned for the feedlings, 

 and to give them frequent gentle w^aterings during the growing 

 feafon. By next fpring the Cedars will be out of danger, the 

 hoops and mats will be of no further ufe, and the plants require 

 only common culture in all time coming. 



These plants being now three years old, will be hardy 

 enough for removal to a common nurfery, in any ordinary foil 

 or iituation, where, about the beginning of April, they fhould 

 be planted in lines two and a half feet afunder, and fourteen or 

 fixteen inches diftant in the line. At tranfplanting, continue to 

 reduce the downright roots, and fliorten the fmaller fibres mode- 

 rately, which v/ill occalion their producing many more new 

 roots, fo as afterwards to rife with bulks of earth clofely adhe- 

 ring to them ; — it will be neceffary to fteep them in palp as for- 

 merly, to water them at planting, and to continue it every fourth 

 or fifth evening for fix weeks, the weather being dry. Here let 

 them continue two years, when they may be removed to the pla- 

 ces in which they are meant to remain j or, if defired larger for 



