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that method, therefore, has generally been my 

 pradlice. Mr. Marfham now indeed has nearly 

 made a convert of me. That gentleman's fuccefi 

 almoft exceeds belief; but he is blefled with a happy 

 foil, and no one more defcrves fuccefs than he does. 



For fowing acorns, the Inverted fod of the fur- 

 veyors feems not equal to Mr. Pavicr's method ot 

 preparing the ground by bringing it into good tilth, 

 I would add, dung it well for wheat, throw it up 

 into ridges, fbw hazle-nuts, floes, haws, holly- 

 berries, alhen and maple-keys, broad-cad with the 

 wheat, and dib in acorns at ten or twelve feet dis- 

 tance, along the mid- ridges where the foil is bed. 

 At reaping-time, leave the ftubble long to fhelter 

 the fcedlings, and in the Ipring following, fcatter 

 fome clover feed over the ground j much of it will 

 grow to Ihade and prote6t the oaks when the ftub- 

 ble rots away. Patches of clover or wild vetches 

 meliorate the foil, and promote the progrefs of the 

 feediings rapidly. Thefe, as they advance, may be 

 thinned and trained either to crooks or upright 

 ftems, asbeft fuitsthe planter's purpofe; for oaks, 

 whilft the bark is fmooth and white, may be divefted 

 of their ftraggling flioots without injury, for die 

 wounds not being large will foon heal over, leaving 

 neither blemifh or dead knot behind. 



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