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would always prefer the youngeft and moft healthy to fuch as were older, if of an equal fize. I fpeak here from expe- rience, and therefore do it without the {malleft doubt or hefitation; being cer- tain that future obfervations will confirm the juitnefs of thefe remarks.

§ VII.

Directions for managing the Plants while ay i 4 72 the N urfery.

Ir has been hinted above, that if the plants have been fo managed as to have their roots very much mulplied clofe by the ftem, it will tend greatly to make them profper well, after they are tran{- planted. But as this is a circumftance of much greater importance than is in general apprehended, I fhall beg leave to call the attention of the reader to it ina more particular manner,

It was long imagined that roots im- bibed nourifhment from the earth through- out their whole length, as it was appre-

hended that the watery juices penetrated

the