
            On PLANTATIONS and PLANTING.

those of the resinous kinds. The taking up and removal of such plants
require also more care and caution. Many of them (to insure success)
should be taken out of the nursery with as much earth about their roots as
possible, whose extremes should be preserved as much as can be intire; and
if they are destined to be removed to a great distance, should be planted
immediately, on taking up, into wicker-baskets, which may be planted with
them, and thereby the ball of earth about their roots preserved whole, so
that the plants may be but little checked by their removal; nor should
their branches be pruned as deciduous trees are, especially firs, junipers, &c. 
Some few they may be disburthened of when very thick, and of the lower
branches; but this must be done with discretion, although there are divers [diverse]
other kinds of evergreens of a hardier nature, which will bear much rougher
usage, and therefore require not so much care in their removal.

WHEN the trees and shrubs are properly planted, if the season should
prove very dry, and water near, let each plant have a good watering, then
mulch the surface over their roots with either litter, turf, stones, or any
thing that will prevent the frost from penetrating the roots in winter, or the
heat of the sun and air in summer, so that they may be kept in a proper
state for striking root. Afterwards nothing more is required, than keeping
the ground clear from weeds, for at least the first and second years; but as
the lower front shrubs will not arrive in that time to a size so as to resist the
weeds, which, if left standing, may surround them much to their prejudice,
the plants should therefore be kept clean for a longer period of time particularly
where herbaceous plants are intermixed: to which may be added,
the propriety of pruning the major part of the shrubs each year; but this
should be done with judgement, cutting out the very weak, and also the
luxuriant branches, disposing each plant as it grows into an handsome form.
This will not only assist their growth, cause them to flower strong, but be a
means towards making an agreeable appearance when full grown.

THE distance the trees and shrubs should be from each other when
planted, depends on their size when full grown: it may be therefore necessary
to observe, that as the largest and tallest growing trees should be
planted at the back part of the whole, they also require more space left between
them than those of a less growth; not that they should be set so far
asunder from each other as may be proper for them to be when grown to
their full perfection, but should be planted much thicker; for they are not
only a shelter to the lesser plants in their infancy of their growth, but are also
a protection to each other while young; for when they are grown too close,
they may be thinned out discretionally, either for domestic purposes, or, if
not too large, may be transplanted elsewhere, particularly forest trees, most
of whom will bear removal at a very considerable size: such trees are
very proper for the embellishment of parks, &c. either singly or in clumps; 
and, if properly managed in the plantation, their stems will appear strait
and handsome: besides, when they are of some tolerable substance, they
can
        