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exceptions, this appears to me one ; the faving of time has been 

 obferved : To which I fliall add, that thefe plants, in place of or>e 

 ftrong perpendicular flioot, (which is commonly the cafe of 

 young vigorous feedlings), pufli out a number of flioots very 

 much equal in fhrength, and continue to grow in that manne:?, 

 without a few branches running away with the juices that ought 

 to nourifli many in much the fame proportion ; whence, from, 

 experience, I mufl affirm, that for the moft equal, clofe, and; 

 impenetrable hedges, plants raifed from young and tender roots 

 are the beft ; but for hngle trees, meant to grow in the moft 

 comely form, and afpire to the greateft altitude, thofe propaga?- 

 ted from feeds are no lefs preferable^. 



All thofe Thorns may now be treated in the fame manner, 

 and in Odlober fliould be planted out in lines, at leaft eighteen 

 inches afunder and fix inches in the line, their roots having been 

 ihortened, and their tops cut off, fo as to ftand four or five 

 inches above ground when planted. In this nurfery they fhould 

 remain no more than two years, and the ground ought to be 

 dug both in autumn and fpring between the lines ; it will like- 

 ways much increafe their rooting abundantly, as well as pro- 

 mote vigorous clean flioots, that, the year after having been 

 planted in this nurfery, they be again cut over an inch or two 

 above the former cutting.. 



In autumn, remove thefe to another quarter, and plant them 

 in lines four feet afunder and two feet diflant in the line : Let 

 them, novf be cut to the height of a foot or fourteen, inches,, and', 

 about the end of June, clip them flraight in the fides and thin 



the tops. Hxiving ftood_ here a; year longer, cut them again 



