TREATISE ON 



imtranfplanted remainder as long, remove them to their proper 

 ftations for good, as, confidering their being fo very hard in the. 

 root, and miwilling to. pufh out frefli ones, any further procefs 

 in the nurfery way will be unnecelTary. Let them be plentifully 

 watered at removal, and that regularly attended to once a week 

 in dry weather, during the warm fummer months. 



Though the attentive culture of this tree in fuch a climate 

 as ours, when difpofed in proper fituations, mufl; be, produdlivc 

 of many advantages, yet I would not advife their being planted 

 near the houfe or gardens, as in April and May they call their 

 old leaves, which occafions a prodigious litter, and are in that 

 chearful feafon ragged and gloomy. 



The land they chiefly affe6^, from the relation of reputable 

 writers, is a hazelly loam. This is a fpecies of earth few plants 

 will difagree with, but is very far from being univerfal ; and 

 luckily the Ilex, will fucceed in a variety of lefs defireable foils : 

 Therefore I muft aflirm, from experience, tliat fuch as are meant 

 for tranfplantation, though they ought to be cultivated in a ge- 

 nerous mould, which will fooneftjprocure them fufficient roots to 

 bear removal, yet thefe roots being procured, (which will not 

 fail if the direcPcions here given are attended to), they will after- 

 wards grow freely in very ordinary land, in that particularly 

 which is deep, though very coarfe and ftubborn (but not wet) 

 moft vigoroLiily. They are indeed a little delicate at firft, but 

 foon become amongfi: the hardieft trees ; and thefe I have men- 

 tioned lately in my pofTefTion, ftand on a lean hungry gravel, 

 that had been long and conllantly employed in raifmg nurfery 

 crops, a circtiixirtaiicc unflivourable to their vigorous growth. 



