then dye^ For, either we take our Stocks out of Woods^ or 
out of Nurferies 5 in either place they lye warm. If you then in 
oBober tranfplant them,you expofe them on a fudden to an open 
Air, and adventure themjbeing weak j to a long andpeihips 
cold winter $ which they cannot bear, no more than our Men 
un-ufedto a Voyage beyond the Line, can the heat. Add 
hereunto 3 that I can relieve them againft the Drought^by wa- 
tering and covering the ground, to keep it cool : But there is 
no fence againft the Froft ^ which many times gets into the 
Roots, and kills, fothat they never fpring 5 or, if they do, 
yetpulingly, and dye in the Spring ; or, if they furvive, as 
many do, yet come on very flowly and pitifully. For,the Bark 
does cleave to the wood by reafon of the cold, which dries 
„ and clings them together, that like an hide-bound horfe, they 
will not admit the Sapjwhich the Root would fend up 5 and o- 
ther Suckers grow out at the earth,and theTree grows dry,and 
turns red : All which difcovers the Obftriiftion in the receiving 
the Sap, which would come from the root 5 and then we are 
forced to (core and loofen the Bark as we can^ Kow on the 
other fide, if the Summer prove moift, the danger and fi?ar of 
late fetting is over, and they will thrive and comeforWard a 
main^tf atherwife,! feldora fee but they alwayes keep green and 
frefb, being maintained in life and verdure by the Sap they re- 
ceive in the beginning of the6*/?r/>^)before they be tranfplanted. 
This therefore I do(vvhi€h I fubmit to better judgments and 
experience;)In the dead of Winter I prune and cut the Tree I 
intend to tranfplant,asl would have it be,to the end to lofe no- 
thing of its ftrength when I tranfplant. Then I fufFer it to abide 
untouched by the Spade till Valentines day^ and then remove 
it after it hath taken in fome what of the Spring. This,! think, 
w ill caufe it to take better and grow better. Niceties in Graft- 
ing or Planting I will not trouble you with, nor care I for^ 
but this I thought good to offer to the experience of others 
( having found it far beft in mine) becaufe it is that which is 
, of daily and general ufe 5 and if this feafon be found beft, it 
will be that which will be of great advantage to this kind of 
Husbandry. 
In Tranfplanting I am very careful to prelerve and fet the 
Roots as large as I may ; fuppofing the larger the Root, the 
jnore of ftrength and Sap it contains^ and fo will advance the 
