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e— defcends to a great it out a fufficient number of ae fhoots near the furface; fo that when it is afterwards taken up to be planted in the he lve-row, it has few or no fmall roots that can be raifed with the plant, which fubjects 4 in a very high degrees to the inconveniencies above enumerated.

To obviate thefe inconveniencies in fome meature, it is always proper to tranf- plant the thorns when young; at which period, the roots oug ght to be fhortened with a fharp knife, whith will force them to fend out a number of fmall ramifica- tions, in the fame manner as we fee hap- pens with the branches of a tree when thefe are lopped off.

The ufual method of fowing thorns in a bed pretty thick, 1s as good a praétice as can be followed, if the young thorns are tranfplanted from it in proper time. If the foil of the nurfery be fufficiently rich, fome of the{trongeft plants ought to be drawn from it the firft winter after towing; and the remainder ought only to be iufece-d to remain in the feed-bed one

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