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On thefc fads I fball take the liberty of making 

 % few obfervationa. With regard to the firft and 

 fecond articles, the poplars, the advantages attend- 

 ing their rapid growth require no comment: but I 

 may juft remark, the foil as already defer ibcd was 

 particularly adapted to them, and that thefe plants 

 are very apt to fail, where there arc cold fprings, or 

 the lower foil is gravel. 



The third, the abelc tree, exhibits a remarkable 

 inftanceof rapid growth. An old tenant of mine 

 procured the original tree, I know not from whence, 

 under the name of Duub Beech j finding the cut- 

 tings flourifh uncommonly, I have planted them in 

 a variety of foil and fituation, and at prefent I have 

 not found any in which it does not exceed every 

 kind of tree in its firft ftages. I have one particu- 

 lar fpot where the foil is barren ooze, raifed by an 

 addition of the fame foil thrown out to form apiece 

 of water: I planted it with various kinds of trees; 

 they all died or remained without growth, except 

 ibme fmall cuttings of this kind, which being inter- 

 mixed, flouriihed as ufual, and promife to become 

 large trees. 



I have planted it on ground where cold fprings 

 rife, and where the red or black poplar, after arri- 

 ving ai fome Cze, died 5 they flouriih there alfo with 



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