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roots remain in a great meafure deftitute of mouths, which tends in a moft power- ful manner to check the vegetation of the plant at that time, fo as to{tint it in its growth, and to make it languifh ever afterwards.

But if, by a judicious management while in the nurfery, the roots had been prevented from extending to any confi- derable di ftance, and had been forced to divide into numerous ramifications near the ftem, fewer of thefe{mall roots would have been cut off when it was tranfplant- ed, and the inconveniencies above enu- merated would have been, in a great mea- fure, obviated.

Many improving farmers feem to be fufficiently aware of the good effects that refult from this caufe, and therefore are difpofed, on all occafions, to prefer well-

rooted plants(that is, plants that have

ndny{mall fibres at their roots) to fuch asare Darer or fiat pres.- ANG do. 1b often happens that plants which have been reared in a poor foil, by being un- ps to penetrate it with eafe, are com- nelled to branch out into more numerous

ramifications