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feet afunder and one foot in the line ; water them at planting, 

 and continue to do fo once in five or fix days during the fpring 

 and fummer months, the weather being dry ; keep the ground 

 clean and loofe about them, and point it over in autumn and 

 fpring ; in which fituation let them remain two years. 



• From thence remove them to any ordinary quarter of the 

 nurfery ; cut away a little of the extremities of their roots, with 

 fuch as are ill-placed and crofs each other ; plant them in lines 

 three and a half feet afunder and two feet diftant in the line, 

 ordering them as in their former quarters, and let them continue 

 here three years, when they will be. of proper fize to tranfplant 

 where they are to remain : But if large plants are wanted at a 

 future period, to make an immediate appearance in fingle trees, 

 in groves, or in the wildernefs, they may again be remov^ed to 

 another nurfery, and planted about five feet afunder every way, 

 to (land two, three, or four years longer, this tree being as pa- 

 tient of removal when large as any Evergreen, which I fpeak 

 from experience, having tranfplanted them at ten and twelve 

 feet high with ail the fuccefs that could be deiired, . 



The Chinefe Arbor Vit£^ though afterwards a hardy plant, is, 

 when young, a little more delicate and flower of growth than the 

 other, neither does it root well by layers in lefs than two rears, 

 or take freely by cuttings in the open ground ; and therefore it 

 may be advifeable to fow^ feme of their feeds, in doing of which, 

 the culture directed for the American Cyprefs, is in all refpeds- 

 the bed I can prefcribe for them. 



It may likeways be proper to railc part of them by layers^ 

 which, having flood two years, will be rooted. In the begin- 



