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common: Such havoc was the effect of the late prodigious hmricane. c hat• * 11 .But to proceed. To facilitate the removal of such monstrous trees forthe adornment of some particular place, or the rarity of the plant, thereis this farther expedient: A little before the hardest frosts surprise you?-make a square trench about your tree, at such distance from the stemas you judge sufficient for the root; dig this of competent depth,so as almost quite to undermine it, by placing blocks and quarters of woodto sustain the earth; this done, cast in as much water as may fill thetrench, or at least sufficiently wet it, unlefs the ground were very moistbefore; thus let it stand till some very hard frost do bind it firmly to theroots, and them convey it to the pit prepared for its new station, whichyou may preserve from freezing by laying store of warm litter in it, andso close the mould the better to the straggling fibres, placing what youtake out about your new guest to preserve it in temper; but in case themould about it be so ponderous as not to be removed by an ordinaryforce, you may then raise it with a crane or pulley, hanging betweena triangle made of three strong and tall limbs united at the top, wherea pulley is fastened, as the cables are to be under the quarters which bearthe earth about the roots; for by this means you may weigh up, andplace the whole weighty clod upon a trundle, sledge, or other carriage,to be conveyed and replanted where you please, being let down perpen-dicularly into the place by the help of the foresaid engine : And by thisaddrefs you may transplant trees of a wonderful stature without the leastdisorder, and many times without topping, or diminution of the head,which is of great importance where this is practised to supply a defect,or remove a curiosity.
11. Some advise that, in planting of Oaks, &c. four or five be sufferedto stand very near to one another, and then to leave the most prosperouswhen they find the rest to disturb its growth ; but I conceive it werebetter to plant them at such distances as they may least incommode oneanother: For timber-trees, I would have none nearer than forty feetwhere they stand closest, especially of the spreading kind.
12. Lastly, Trees of ordinary stature transplanted, (being first wellwatered,) must be sufficiently staked and bushed about with thorns,to protect them from the concufsion of the winds, and from the casualrubbing and poisonous brutting of cattle and sheep, the oilinefs of whose