generally been held that an oak does not remove 

 well./ The furveyor-general before mentioned, 

 who paid great attention to his own plantations, 

 informed m? that by removing an oak twice or 

 thrice, when very young, and each time cutting off 

 the tap or principal root, it would afterwards profper 

 as well as any other tree, 



Itfeldom happens that timber is raifed on farms 

 let out to tenants to cultivate, except particular 

 attention be paid to it by the landlord or his (leward. 

 It is not merely the giving orders for a number of 

 trees to be planted that I mean. The man who 

 fucceeds mufl plant that which is fuitable to the foil, 

 preferve it from d?mage, and take pleafure in feeing 

 it flourifh. There are few forts of timber proper 

 for hedge-rows. Perhaps elm generally fucceeds 

 the befl, and does the leaft damage to quick fences. 

 When a hedge is new plafhed, the labourer cuts ofF^ 

 many young faplings, which would, if let (land, make 

 timber. It is good policy to give thefe men a fmall 

 gratuity for every do^en of foplings that they fpare. 

 This is adually pradtifed on the eftate of the Marquis 

 pf Bath, through the good condudl of his fteward, 

 Qnc of our wordiy and very intelligent members. 

 After trees arc planted, or led up in this manner, it 

 ^cquire^ particular attcntipn to preferve them. The/ 



