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found by me to (hoot again, after having been fed 

 down-, to which, I am forry to anfwer, that it did 

 not do fo with me, in any fuch degree, as to make 

 it worth preferring for that purpofe: when I fay 

 that I am forry to anfwer fo, it is becaufe, had the 

 refult of the trial been otherwife, the cultivation of 

 thofe plants would have been an invaluable prac- 

 tice, on fuch hot burning foils as will afford little or 

 no grafs in the fummer feafon. However, it muft 

 be obferved, that mine were fed down by Iheep, 

 perhaps too clofely, and that the very few fprouts 

 which afterwards appeared, were, I believe, fome of 

 them eaten down by the hares. 



The anfwers to the queries, which I tranfmitted 

 to you in my laft letter, were fuch as, on the moft 

 exa6t and flrid enquiry, I could obtain from the 

 principal timber merchants, as well as from the beft 

 informed gentlemen of this county; and I have rea- 

 fon to think may be fully relied upon, I have 

 the fatisfa^lion to be able to add, that the propaga- 

 tion of oaks, by fowing the acorns, and planting 

 young trees from the feed- beds, is now frequently 

 and extenfively pradtifed here by gentlemen in their 

 ornamental and other plantations. 



I am, &c. 



THOMAS BEEVOR. 



Hsthl, Jan, 7, 1792, 



