FOREST-TREES. 



"The feedlings and cuttings may now be treated in the fame 

 manner, and removed to another nurfery, where, having flior- 

 tened and cut away all ill-placed roots that crofs each other, and 

 likewife pruned off fuperfluous branches, carefully preferving 

 and encouraging the principal leading ilioot, plant them in lines 

 four feet afunder and two feet diftant in the line ; take care of 

 cultivating the ground as formerly, and prune them annually in 

 flich a manner as will moft elevate them in the pyramidal form : 

 In this nurfery they may continue three, or not exceeding four 

 years. I have fpoken hitherto only with regard to fuch as are 

 intended for tall ftandard trees ; but here let it be obferved, that 

 fuch as are meant for covering of walls, forming hedges, or 

 other fuch purpofes, may either be applied in thefe ways from 

 the former nurfery, or trained here fo as at once to anfwer your 

 future deligns. This tree is commonly dwarfed and disfigured 

 by letting it grow rough too long, after which they are not to 

 be redreffed or brought to a proper figure, being much injured 

 by cutting their old wood. 



For making large plantations, thefe trees will now be of a 

 competent fize ; but if a referve is wanted for diftant defigns, 

 remove them to another fpot, and plant them in the quincunx 

 order, at fix feet afunder every way, obferving the former cul- 

 ture ; where, after Handing two years, they may be removed 

 with fafety five or fix years longer. 



Th e two forts with fcrip'd leaves may alfo be increafed by cut- 

 tings ; but their variegation being very faint, in a luxuriant foil 

 they will foon turn quite plain, and ought therefore to be plan- 

 ted in a poor, hungry, dry fand or gravel. In order to blend 

 their colours better than they naturally are, make them more 



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