But to make an essay what seed is most agreeable to the soil, you may by the thriving of a promiscuous semination make a judgment of, What each soil bears, and what it does refuse.{20:1} transplanting those which you find least agreeing with the place; or else, by copsing the starvelings in the places where they are newly sown, cause them sometimes to overtake even their untouch'd contemporaries.
Something may here be expected about the fittest season for this work of transplanting; of which having spoken in another{21:1} treatise, annext to this, (as well as in divers other places throughout this of Forest-trees) I shall need add little; after I have recommended the earliest removals, not only of all the sturdy sort in our woods, but even of some less tender trees in our orchards; pears, apples, vulgar cherries, &c.

whilst we favour the delicate and tender murals, and such as are pithy; as the wall-nut, and some others.

But after all, what says the plain wood-man, speaking of oaks, beech, elms, haw-thorns, and even what we call wild and hedge-fruit?
Set them, says he, at All-hallowtide, and command them to prosper; set them at Candlemass, and intreat them to grow.

Nor needs it explanation.
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But here some may enquire what distances I would generally assign to transplanted trees?
To this somewhat is said in the ensuing periods, and as occasion offers; though the promiscuous rising of them in forest-work, wild and natural, is to us, I acknowledge, more pleasing than all the studied accuracy in ranging of them; unless it be where they conduct and lead us to avenues, and are planted for _vistas_ (as the _Italians_ term is) in which case, the proportion of the breadth and length of the walks, &c.