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The Art of 
muft ye do yearly^ orasye ftialliw cauCcj if yc will keep your tree* 
well and faire. ,,tcr 
HoiP one ought to inlarge the hole about the Trees root. 
I N preining your trces,ifthere be any rootSj ye enlarge them 
in the hole, and To wreath them, as is aforefaid, and ule them 
without breaking, then coyer them againc with good fat earth, 
which ye (hall mingle in thefaid hole, and it (hall be beft to be 
digged all over a little before, and fee chat no branch or root be 
left uncovered ; and when you have thus dre(Ted your trees, if any 
root (halkput forth, or fpiing hereafter out of the. faid holes, in 
growing, ye may fo proine them as ye (hall (ee caufe, in letting 
them fo remalne two or three years after, undll fuch time as the 
laid graifesbe fprungup, and well branched. 
Hon> to jet fmaU ^jves by to jlrer^then your Cions. 
T O avoide danger, ys (hall fee or prick fmall (hves about your 
Cion?, for fear of breaking, and then after three or four years, 
when they be well branched, ye may then fet or plant then in good 
earth, (at the beginning of Winter) but fee that ye cut off all the 
fmall branches hard by the (lock, then ye may plant them where ye 
thinke good, fo as they may remaine. 
In^taklng up Trees, note. 
Y e may well leave the malter root in the hole. ( when ye digge 
him up) if the removed place be good for him, cut off the n a- 
fterrootby the (tub, but pare not off all the fmall roots, and fo 
plant him, and he (hall profit more thus, then others with all their 
niafter roots. When all trees be great, they mult be dif- branched, 
or boughes cut off, before they be fet againe, or el(c they will hard- 
ly profper. If the trees be great, having great branches or boughes, 
when ye lhal) digge them up, ye mnlt difbranch them before ye let 
them againe 5 for when trees fh dl be thusproined, they (hall biing 
great Cions from their roots, which (hall be franke and good to re- 
planfjOr (ct in other places, and (hall have alfo good branches and 
roots, fo that after it (hall not need to graffe them any mote, but 
ihall continue one after another to be free and good. 
Horv to couch the roots when they are proined. . 
TN fetting your trees again?, if ye will dieffe the roots of fuch as 
I ye have proined, or cud off the branches before, ye (lull leave all 
fuch (inall roots which gix)w on the great root, andye (hall fo place 
thofe roots in re-planting againc not deep in the earth, fo that they 
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