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value of this tree; from its roots extending in 

 every diredion through the porous foil, new trees 

 are annually rifing, vvhofe yearly flioot is frequently 

 more than equal to the ftature of the parent tree 

 when firft planted, and the two earlleft of the ofF- 

 fpring, which arofe about fix years fince, are from 

 thirteen to fourteen feet high. I don't know that 

 I am able to number the progeny of this fingle tree, 

 a little copfe having fprung in an area of thirty- 

 five feet diameter; many of the young ones are 

 tranfplanted elfewhere. The populus tremuky which 

 I have introduced with this, has the fame facihty 

 of throwing out its lateral fhoots, but their growth 

 is not equally vigorous with the alha^ nor is their 

 wood in a ftate of miaturity held to be of equal 

 value. In fine, the motive to this recital is to 

 carry an information of the experienced ufe that 

 may refult from planting fuitably lofty ground, of 

 fuch foil and expofure^ whereby it may be com- 

 pelled by the adaptation of a few proper trees to 

 become an ornamental and beneficial wood, after a 

 few years growth; yet while their growth may fu- 

 perfede the neceflity of planting other trees, their 

 clpfe and broad foliage, by excluding the fun, pre- 

 pares the fhaded ground for the reception of other 

 trees, that would otherwife have perifhed beneath 

 his beams, I have in the laft four years replaced 



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