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dung, fuch. as lias been diredled for grafts. It is impofTible 

 juftly to afcertain the height thefe trees fhould be reduced to, 

 that depending on their proportions, as the (Irong-bodied 

 plants muft be cut higher than the more flender of the fame 

 height. I fhall fuppofe them, from {landing very thick, to be 

 drawn the length of twenty-five feet; in that event, cutting 

 them from twelve to fifteen feet high may probably be about 

 a proper medium, but the precife ftandard muft depend on 

 Ibme litde knowledge in the operator, or rather diretlor, as 

 indeed the wounding or pruning of trees of every kind, ancL 

 for every particular purpofe, ought not to be left to the barbarity 

 of common labourers, but have more attention beftowed, and 

 gentler treatment given them, than they ufually meet with.. 



The general pracftice in cafes of this kind, is reducing both-, 

 the tops and roots of the tree at the fanqie time : But this is a fe- 

 verity they will not bear ; for though they may outlive it a few 

 years, it M'ill be but in a confumptive way, from which they 

 never fully recover : Therefore, to do this efFedlually, two years, 

 more muft at leaft be employed.- 



Th e following fpring then, make a trench between three and 

 four feet deep, and full four feet wide, round all the plants to 

 be removed : Bend the tree fo far to one fide, as that you can 

 come eafily at the downright roots ; after which, v/ith. a £harp 

 hatchet, cut them acrofs, but leave the fide-roots, particularly 

 diofe neareft the furface, as little difturbed as may be : This 

 being done, replace the plant in its former upright ftation, and 

 -brow back the eartli taken from about it. 



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