Chap: VIIL of Gardening. 



bigger than that you would raife^ for fear they ihould take 

 away all the Sap, you muft peel them all round, about three 

 Fingers high, which will ftop their Nouriftiment. 



Thus you are every Year to guide the leading Shoot of 

 thefe young Trees higher and higher, looking out new 

 Branches to wind round them and keep them upright, and 

 pruning off, with the Knife, all thofe that are below to the 

 very Foot. By this means you will make your young Plants 

 grow tall and ftrait, and have the Pleafure of feeing them 

 one Day very fine Trees ^ provided, as was faid in the fore- 

 going Chapter, you leave them no more than one leading 

 Shoot. 



When in a Nurfery there are any Trees that lean of 

 one Side, they muft be fet upright again^ by carrying them 

 over and twifting them fo with thofe that are near, that they 

 may fuftain- and keep one another to rights as they grow. 

 The Time of the Rife of the Sap is the moft proper for this 

 Work, Trees then bending more eafily, without being fub-^ 

 jed to break. 



These .Trees having reached the Age of fix or fevea 

 Years, and being grown to about five or fix Inches thick, 

 and between fifteen and twenty Foot high, are then in a 

 Condition to be fet in the Garden, if there be Occafion to 

 new furnilh any vacant Places. They Ihould not be drawn 

 fo foon from the Nurfery, as to lofe the Time of their thri- 

 ving, and becoming beautiful i and when you would take 

 up any, they fliould be raifed with their Clod ia the follow- 

 ing Manner. 



After having pitched upon the Trees you would take 

 from the Nurfery, and marked them with Ozier-Twigs or 

 Straw, lay them open all round, leaving a Ring or Clod of 

 Earth it the Foot of the Tree. You fliould take Care not 

 to hurt the Roots, nor give the Clod any great Shake, for 

 fear it tumble in Pieces f for which Reafon you Ihould fet 

 ^Afery expert Gardeners about this Work, left in raifing one 

 Tree, they fpoil two or three round about it, which will 

 foon ruin a Nurfery. Thefe Trees are not hard to raife^^^ 

 their Roots lying almoft eaveii with the Giguud*. 



