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The fpecies your correfpondcnt mentions, (as 

 received under the denomination of the Dutch 

 Beech) furpaflcs them in quickncfs of growth. But 

 I much fufpeft that his trees are very branchy. 



■ AlDer, 



As patten-makers' timber merits little regard, 

 but being the moll beautiful of the whole aquatic 

 tribe, is extremely ornamental, along the banks of 

 Terpentine rivulets, or planted as fingle trees in 

 fpringy gravels, or peaty bogs, where little ellc will 

 grow. Placed in a border round abeles, the latter 

 run above them, and form a pleafing contraft. 



From the authority of great maflers in their way^ 

 Miller, Mortimer, &c. I was induced to plant a 

 waggon-load of truncheons, in the year 1764, in 

 fituations above defcribed. I was flattered the next 

 fummer with every profpe6t of fuccefs, their fhoots 

 being flrong and grofs, but lo 1 the year following, 

 one and all perifhed, not having ftruck a fingle 

 root. Being fatisfied that this could not be owing 

 to a defeat in the foil, I replanted the fame in 1766, 

 with fmall-rooted flips taken from old dubs, few of 

 which failed ; moft of them have been cut twice 

 for brufh-wood, poles, &c. and of thofe planted 

 fingle, one has formed a conical top of great beauty, 



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