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A YEAR after, open the fame trench, and fliortcn all the fprcacl- 

 ing lide-roots, which will much increafe their number, and 

 make the earth adhere to them when the trees arc raifed foi' 

 good, and which thej may be the facceeding feafon, but it will 

 ftill be better if they remain another. It may naturally occur, 

 that if any of the trees are to remain, reducing their overgrown 

 heights is all that is necelTary to be done with them. 



Til E reafon of taking two or three feafons for preparing thefc 

 roots in the manner dire(5led, is, that the ftrength of the trees 

 may be as little impaired as poflible, particularly fuch as you 

 intend to grov\r lofty in the pyramidal form, which, when all 

 the wounding operations are performed at once, they cannot do, 

 as the flioots, from wcaknefs, will not grow perpendicular, but 

 loofe and ftraggling, though, by uling thefe precautions, and ha- 

 ving this patience, which in the main is lofing no time, the up- 

 right fhoots will be ftraight and vigorous before the trees are 

 raifed, and, being furniflied with plenty of young frefli roots, 

 they will rife with bulks of earth about them, and continue in 

 a healthful ftate. 



For the beft manner of planting thefe trees, fee the Elm. 



FINIS. 



