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will be well rooted, and fit for removal. The branches being 

 torn afunder at the joints, are better than plain cuttings. 



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Th e plants from feeds being five, and the cuttings two years 

 old, (though flill fmall), remove them to another nurfery, ihort- 

 ening their downright roots, and lay them in lines two feet afun- 

 der and nine or ten inches in the line, to remain three years. 



From thence remove them again, and plant them in lines four 

 feet afunder and two feet in the line, giving them a plentiful 

 watering, which fhould be repeated, if the weather is dry, once 

 a week, three or four times ; and here they may continue, if the 

 land is rich, four, but if poor, five or fix years, during which 

 time they may be pruned, fo as to elevate them for trees, or 

 clip'd into the form of hedges, fuitable to your intentions. Let 

 digging between thefe plants, at leafh in the fpring, never be 

 omitted, as nothing will fo much contribute, not only to increafe 

 their growth, but multiply their roots. 



If defired larger, you may once more remove them to another 

 quarter, and plant them, at eight feet diftance by fix, continuing 

 the fame culture as before; from whence you may remove thems 

 any time required, within feven or eight years. 



No plant is more patient of being tranfplanted old tlian the 

 Yew ; it naturally produces great quantities of fmall roots, to 

 which the earth adheres fo clofely, that, with plentiful waterings, 

 you may at once form compleat hedges of feven or eight feet 

 high, that will not in the fmallefl manner be retarded in their 

 growth by removal, but have the fame freilmcfs and verdure the 

 firft feafon they ever h^d. 



