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chernut, midway plant a crab, midway between the 

 chefnut and crab plant a common plumb-ftock, 

 midway between the feveral chefnuts, plumb, and 

 crab (locks, plant a white-thorn ; when thefe fe- 

 veral plantations have been made three or four 

 years, and are in a thriving ftate, about the end of 

 February or March, cut them off with a fharp knife, 

 about an inch or two from the ground; they will 

 then throw out many fhoots ; keep them well weeded, 

 and let them continue growing until the chefnut 

 Ihoots are large enough for flakes and binders, 

 whicli will be in about fix, feven, or eight years, 

 according as the foil fuits the plants; when the plants 

 are formed into a hedge, for which there will be a 

 plentiful fupply of fteepers, (lakes, and all the re- 

 quifite materials ; at the diflance of every hundred, 

 hundred and fifty, or two^hwndred feet, or at whatever 

 diflance fancy leads you, leave a flraight handfomc 

 (hoot of the chefnut, to grow into a tree; if you 

 prefer^ timber, let it remain, and it will 'grow into 

 a good timber tree: if fruit, let it be grafted with 

 grafts from the befl chefnuts you can obtain; it 

 would be defirable if you had an opportunity to 

 procure the grafts from Spain; in like manner 

 leave a flraight handfome fhoot of the-crab flock, 

 and graft it with an apple ; in like manner leave a 

 plumb-flock, and graft it with a damfon, or any 



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