The PraBice Part 11 



pulling up feveral fmall Plants from between thofe that are 

 ftronger, fo that they may be at leaft a Foot afunder. Be- 

 fore you fet about this Work, the Nurfery fliould be weed- 

 ed, that you may better diftinguifh the Plants. This is 

 doubtlefs a great deal of Trouble j but thus your Plants will 

 not be taken up the fecond Year to be replanted elfewhere, 

 and will thrive better, having already taken Root. 



i F you woiild raife a Nurfery in little time, inftead of 

 fowing, you muft plant it all at once, with Plants that have 

 already taken Root, and are fomewhat ftrong. This will 

 be no great Expence^a thoufand of thefe young Plants coft- 

 ing no great Matter. You gain, by this means, the two 

 Years the Seed takes up to raife and form the like Plants; 

 and you are not obliged to take them up again two Years 

 after, to replant them in other Places, or to be at the Trou- 

 ble of tliinning them, as was juft now mentioned. Thi^ is 

 indeed the beft way of planting a Nurfery^ and that which I 

 always make Ufe of myfelf. 



If you have then the Conveniency of getting young 

 plants , as Elms ^ Chefnuts, Lime-Trees, Horfe-Chef- 

 nutSj open Trenches at every two Foot, and fet your 

 Plants in them by the Line^ at a Foot Diftance one from a- 

 nother, and no more ; for the nearer the Plants are toge- 

 ther, the better they guide one another. Then cover the 

 Trenches again anci fettle the Ground about the Plants, left 

 the Roots take Wind. You muft take great Care not to cut 

 your Plantation down to the Ground, as many People do. 

 'Tis a very ill Cuftom \ all that you need to do is only to trim 

 the Roots of the Plants^ by cutting off the fmall Ends of 

 them. 



When your Plants are grown pretty ftrong in yout^ 

 Nurfery, as to be three or four Year old, you muft begin to. 

 manage and bring them up in this Manner. Prune off all 

 your little Buds and Twigs along the Stem to the Top, and 

 pick out among all the Branches, that which is moft up- 

 right upon the Foot of the Tree; then, without cutting any 

 thing, break the End of the ufelefs Branches, and twift them- 

 about the good one, fo that they may ferve to keep and di-^ 

 le^ it as Need, requires. When thefe twifting Branches are., 



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