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In the year 1768, I planted fome hundreds' of 

 young trees in fingle and double rows along the fide 

 of chalky hills. Thefe arc now iJiirty feet high, 

 and in circumference from eighteen to twenty inches 

 at four feet from the ground 5 they were originally 

 drawn from the woods from three to four feet high, 

 and a general failure being prognofticated by un- 

 fuccefeful beech-planters, I placed them thicker than 

 I would have done, and planted them alternately, 

 the bed at full length, and the worft cut down to 

 the lowed eye, which was left even with the fur- 

 face of the ground -, there were not one in an hun- 

 dred of the former which lived, nor one in a hun- 

 dred of the latter which failed. An upright growth 

 of thirty kcty in two and twenty years, in a poor 

 (hallow foil, is as much as could be expedled ; they 

 would have increafed fafter in bulk, if they had 

 been permitted to have fpread j but my defign be- 

 ing to draw them into long fhafts, they were fre- 

 quently trimmed for that purpofc, and promife to 

 make fine trees hereafter. 



N. B. Beeches may be trained to long flraight 

 fhafrs, after the manner of elms, with this dif- 

 ference only — that a fpray muft be left near the 

 end of every fhortened branch to keep it alive, 

 otherwilc it pcrifhcs, and becomes a faulty knot. 



Beeches 



