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Article XXXII. 



On Planting Boggy Soils with AJh\ and the 

 Slopes ofjleep Hills with Foreji Trees. 



[By Mr. Fletcher^ near Northleach, in Glocefter/hire.] 



Gentlemen, 



T TAVING been pretty largely concerned in 

 ^ -*• planting Foreft Trees, on various foils, for 

 more than twenty years, and tried different me- 

 thods, I have found, by repeated experience, that 

 no land whatever is fo proper for the growth of 

 jljb in particular, as fwampy, rufhy, and boggy 

 foils. I have planted Alh on land which was lb 

 boggy and rotten, that the men were obliged to 

 ftand on boards, to prevent their being mired, and 

 which, from its fituation, could never be drained fo 

 as to render it fit for the cultivation of corn or 

 graffes. It was aftonifiiing to fee their growth. 

 Fadts can be eafily produced to prove, that fuch, 

 land (not worth a Ihilling per acre for any other 

 purpofe) has in divers places produced, in thirteen 

 or fourteen years, from fixty to feventy pounds 

 worth of the fineft aih poles, at a moderate price, 

 befides leaving a proper quantity of oaks, &c, 

 fown with them, for maiden timber. Where labour 

 is not very dear, an acre of fuch land may be 



planted 



