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When the plants are about eight or ten years old, 

 it may be neceffary to cut down the greater part, 

 leaving a fufrkient number of the moft promifing 

 ones, the fuperfluous branches of which fhould then 

 be taken off, which ought to be the only time they 

 fhould ever be pruned ; as it would be better for 

 the young trees, that fuch branches fhould be ftrip- 

 ped off by hand every time the underwood may be 

 cut, as long as they can be eafily bent down for that 

 purpofe, or if convenient, every year. 



At every time of cutting the underwood, the 

 young trees mould be thinned with great difcretion; 

 the thicker they ftand in reafon whilft young, the 

 better lengths will they arrive at: but I apprehend 

 that each tree fhould at the lafl be allowed a hun- 

 dred fquare yards for the expanfion of its limbs. 



Allowing this to be a proper diflance, an inclo- 

 fure of fifty acres would produce 2420 trees, which 

 I fuppofe woutd come to perfection in about 100 

 years, and that they would be worth (on an average) 

 five pounds each; the value of the timber on the 

 fifty acres would then be 12,100 pounds. 



Mr. Evelyn computes the profit of a thoufand 

 acres, in a hundred and fifty years, to amount to 

 upwards of 670,000!. How he made fuch a calcu- 

 lation, 



