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in lines eighteen inches afunder and five or fix inches in the line, 

 giving them frequent moderate waterings, and pointing over th»e 

 ground in autumn and fpring. The reafon of allowing fo large 

 a fpace to thefe plants, which are, and will be for two years very 

 fmall, is to give room to dig the ground between the lines, as 

 the beft means both to promote the growth of the plants, and to 

 encourage the fide-roots to fpread, fo as to rife with bulks. In 

 this fituation they may remain three years. 



The plants remaining in the feed-bed, being two years old, 

 ought to be removed ; and having cautioufly fhortened their 

 downright, and fmoothed the extremities of the fpreading roots, 

 plant, and otherways cultivate them in the fame manner as the 

 former, only in this nurfery they ought to continue but two 

 years. 



In tolerable foil, and a protected fiuiation, thefe Hollies may 

 be planted for hedges where defigned to remain, cutting them 

 over by the ground, and watering them ; but in poor unflielter- 

 ed land, they will fucceed much better, by giving them more 

 ftrength from age and further culture. 



TjiEREFORE,- to do this effectually, remove thefe plants to 

 another quarter of well-prepared frefli earth, and plant them in 

 lines three feet afunder and eighteen inches in the line. At this 

 time let them have a plentiful watering, keeping the ground as 

 formerly, and here let them continue untouched for two years. 

 The third fpring, throw out a trench of earth from one fide of the 

 plants, and with a fpade made very fliarp, cut clean over all the 

 downright roots at ten inches or a foot below tlie fvirface, and 



