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vernier and December y for fuch as are fooneft made 
are always the beft, except in Grounds too moift and 
full of Water, and you may flay till February, or the 
beginning of March, to the end thattjie Roots of your 
Plants be not by the Water in Winter rotted, which 
not having yet taken, are not llrong enough to refill 
too much moifture. 
A fair Day is always to be chofento plantin,becaufe 
then the Earth is ihorte*-, and better to be handled 
than when dry y and for this reafon Plantations ought 
never to be made in Rain or Snow, to both which 
January being moft liable, is for that reafon moft un- 
fit to plant in. 
And the firft Care of a Planter is, to take up the 
Trees well, without fpoiling any of their Roots, be- 
catife all fheir Vigour depends upon the Roots, which 
muft he preserved as entire ana whole as poflible t 
Alfo Care mull be had in taking up a Tree out of a 
Nurfery, not to lay the whole Root naked, for fear 
you hurt thofe Trees that are about it ; but after you 
have taken Pome Earth away from about the foot of 
it, it may be turned downward half way towards tire 
Ground, and drawn out long ways gently, for by this 
means the Roots are preferred entire from breaking, 
and the Trees not hurt that are left behind; 
The Planter having taken up his Tree with care, 
before you replant it, you mull pare off the end of all 
its Roots (and take away only fuch as are confufed) 
and ftrip them well from all the fmall Fibres, where 
therearetoo many ofthem, unlefs you prefeatly re- 
plant it again almoft as foon as taken up, becaufe 
thefe may clog together and hinder the mould from 
falling eafily between the principal Roots, and filling 
up all their vacuities ; for thiscaufe the Planter can- 
not be too careful in taking away the fmall Threads y 
for the great and middle fort of Roots never fail put- 
ting out of new ones, and thofe which he leaves being 
too confufed, do harm the Tree always more than 
they profit it. Alfo the great Roots muil in the paring 
