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remain another year, without any more trouble than keeping 

 them clean, and refrelliing them with frequent waterings ; after 

 which they may be removed to the nurfery, and planted in lines 

 three feet afunder and eighteen inches in the line, where they 

 fliould remain three years, and then be tranfplanted to the places, 

 where, they are meant to continue for good„. 



Thes e trees require a particular addrefs in pruning them ^, 

 for if they are trim'd clofe up to any confiderable height, their 

 bodies will be fo flender as to bear no proportion to their 

 weighty tops : The beft method therefore of ordering them, fo 

 as both to preferve their beauty an-d accelerate their growth, is, 

 to cut away from, the top to near the bottom all ill-placed forked 

 branches, (of which this plant produces many), referving only, as 

 proper diftances, fuch as are vigorous, and radiate diredly from 

 the body. This is an eafy operation, and wiU require very lit- 

 tle repetition,, the: tree not being difpofed to put out young 

 branches from: the old ftem. By pruning them, judicioufly in 

 this manner, their thick branchy trunks will counterpoife their 

 heavy heads, and render them able to refifl the winds. 



The firjft and fecond forts affeft a dry, fandy, or gravelly foil ; 

 the third, in Virginia, is generally found in moift fwampy pla- 

 ces, and fometimes in conftant ftanding water ; but the American 

 fort I; have always found fucceed beft in a. good deep-feeding 

 earth, neither too wet nor too dry* 



The Cyprefs has not only a fine effed when mix*d' with (tho* 

 not crowded near) other trees, but is of moft plants the properefl 

 50. place round or near buildings, where their upright pyramidal! 



