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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
to allow for thinning by degrees in their advanced 
young growth, leaving a fufficiency of the fineft and 
moll promiling plants to run for full ftandards ; or 
fome planted at once in wide rows or open groves, ten 
to fifteen, or twenty feet afunder, to remain in full 
growth, to acquire a large fize for timber. 
For ornamental plantations, any of the defirable 
forts of Maples may be introduced in affemblage with 
other tree kinds and large fhrubs, and in which are 
eligible to admit in large boundary diftridls, extending 
along next the outward fences of pleafure-grounds, 
parks, &c. fides of capacious lawns, and in confider- 
able Ihrubberry compartments ; and alfo in forming 
clumps of trees in any confiderable open fpaces of grafs 
ground,in extenfive lawns, parks, &c. and are very pro¬ 
per to affemble in plantations defigned for Ihelter in 
particular diftridls, to break off cutting blafts and boif- 
terous winds from interior divifions; as alfo to arrange 
in groves and other compartments of planting, for or¬ 
nament, variety, and obfervation. 
And for all of which plantation, fupplies of young 
trees may be obtained in full colledtion at moft of the 
principal public nurfery gardens; and the feafon for 
planting them is any time in open weather, from Odlo- 
ber or November, to March or the beginning of 
April. 
Or all the forts of Maples may be ealily raifed for 
the feveral plantations required, by the different me¬ 
thods of propagation following, as by feed, layers, 
cuttings. &c. 
By feed all the fpecies of Maples may be plentifully 
raifed, efpecially fuch as ripen feed in fufficient abun¬ 
dance in this country, or that can be obtained of the 
foreign forts from abroad, which, in the greater part, 
may be procured of the nurfery-men and principal feedf- 
*ien, in the proper feafons, in autumn and fpring, and 
may be fowed either in autumn, about September, 
Odlober, November, or in February and March, 
but moft fuccefsfully in autumn; all fowed in beds of 
light earth, in drills or hroad-caft, and earthed in half 
an inch to an inch deep; they will germinate and come 
up in the fpring: keep them clear from weeds all the 
fummer, and by autumn following will be advanced fix 
or eight to ten or twelve inches high; when in Odlober, 
November, or the following fpring, if they Hand very 
thick, fome may be thinned out and tranfplanted in 
nurfet)' rows, or all of them may be tranfplanted from 
the feed-bed the firft or fecond year, fetting them in 
rows in the nurfery, two to three feet afunder, by 
eighteen inches in each row, and in which to remain 
three, four, or five years, or more, till advanced five 
or fix, to eight or ten feet high ; then will be of 
proper fize for final tranfplanting in the feveral plan¬ 
tations for which they may be defigned. 
Likewife, by cuttings and layers of the young' 
Ihoots and branches, moil of the forts of Maple's may' 
be propagated, performing it in autumn or fpring, and 
will be rooted by the Mkhaftmas following: obferving 
generally for the cuttings, chufe the ftraight young 
ihoots of the former fummer, cut in lengths of ten or 
twelve inches, and dibbled in rows a foot afunder, and 
after being well rooted may be tranfplanted at wider 
diftances; and for layers, having young trees, for 
ftools, cut down near the ground, to furnilh bottom 
ihoots, which, when of one or two fummers growth, 
ihould be laid down, previoufly gaihing or cutting 2 
flit on the under fide; then lay and peg them into the 
earth, having the tops upright feveral inches above 
ground; and in autumn, when rooted, cut them from 
the ftools and plant them in nurfery rows. 
In the feveral varieties of Maple, they are generally 
propagated by cuttings or layers to continue them per¬ 
manent in their refpe&ive properties, as feedling-raif- 
ed plants thereof may vary, though the Striped-leaved 
Sycamore in particular, will often, or in the general 
part, come the fame from feed; or the defirable va¬ 
rieties may alfo be propagated by budding and graft¬ 
ing, inferting a bud or graft of the variety intended 
into young Hocks raifed from feed, &c. of the parent 
trees of the refpedlive forts, as the Striped-leaved 
Greater Maple, budded upon Hocks, of the plain green 
leaved kind. 
In railing the young Maples by any of the methods 
above, and being planted in nurfery rows for training 
to the proper fize, their principal culture is to keep 
them clear from weeds, by hoeing between the rows 
in fummer, and digging the ground in winter and 
fpring; and according as the trees advance in growth, 
prune off the ftrong fide-fhoots from the Hem, preferv- 
ing the tops intire to afpire in height, in an upright 
growth, continuing each to a Angle Hem, and a mode¬ 
rate head of branches above. 
When the trees are advanced from three, four, five, 
or fix, to eight, or ten feet high, or little more, they 
may be finally tranfplanted, where they are required, 
in the intended plantations. 
They may be planted or tranfplanted finally any 
time in autumn, about October or November, or in 
open weather, till February, March, or beginning or 
middle of April: and as to future culture, after final 
tranfplanting into the refpedlive plantations, is princi¬ 
pally to prune off low and rude lateral fhoots from the 
Hems, cafual low ftraggling branches of the head, with 
any ftray or rambling branches above, and cut out dead 
wood, ftill continuing the whole to one principal main 
Item, permitting the main top leader to afpire in 
height. 
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