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turnip hufbandry; and therefore fhall confine my 

 prefent remarks principally to planting, efpecially 

 as my refidencc is in that part of the county where 

 the mod barren foil has been thus enriched. 



About thirty years fince, the fides of many of 

 our little fand-hills were fown with the feeds of 

 French furze, and when a wet feafon followed, 

 they fucceeded very well, and grew fo faft that 

 once in three or four years they are cut for fuel, 

 and fell at a good price at Thetford, Brandon, 

 Herling, Swaffham, and places adjacent. This 

 excited fome publick-fpirited Gentlemen, among 

 whom was the late Mr. Buxton, of Shad well- 

 Lodge, near Thetford, to attempt the planting 

 of Scotch and fpruce firs, and other hardy foreft- 

 trees. At firtt. they found fome difficulty from 

 the extreme loofenefs of the fand. But as there 

 is in all this part of the county fine white and 

 yellow marie, at about three feet depth below the 

 fand, they very judicioufly thought that incorpo- 

 rating it with the fand in the holes where their 

 young trees were planted, would infurefuccefs; nor 

 were they difappointed. 



The method fucceeded beyond expectation; 

 jhe plantations throve exceedingly, and the roots 

 foon reached below the fand, after which they 



were 



