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the rcafon is obvious ; the roots they throw out arc 

 for a long while confined to a foil already exhaufted 

 by a like production, which checks their progrefs. 

 If the ground between them were to be dug once a 

 a year, and a few barrows of very rotten dung* 

 turned in for two or three years fucceflively, I doubt 

 not but they would pay by the quicknefs of their 

 growth J but it is an experiment I have not tried. 



The fuckers which arife from my young trees iii 

 the hedge-rows, grow fafter than new-planted mai- 

 ckn- trees of the fame fize, having frefh mould to 

 root in, and receiving at the fame time, fome nou- 

 rid^imcht from the parental flock. The planting 

 elm^ in hedge-rows is neverthelefs in fome relpedls 

 objcdlionable, for the tenant in general thinks' him- 

 Mi intitled to their ihrouds, which he lops in a 

 flovenly manner, at fuch time as he deems moft 

 profitable, viz. every twelve or fourteen years. 

 The faggots are then an objed of fome confe- 

 quence, as well as the relief he gives to his paftures 

 and crops. But the misfortune is, that the wounds 

 he makes are too large to heal over 5 the knots be- 

 come turgid, inflead of fmooth, admit water, and 

 injure the timber. To prevent this, they fhould 



• Mr. Marfham's famous oak, of his own planting, has been 

 nilJth forwarded by digging round and manuring it, 



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