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fame individuals. And 3d. on trees which 

 grow on the fame foil^ and in the fame expo- 

 fit ion, as the field that is to be fown. Were 

 thefe circumftances, i fay, attended to, per- 

 haps we might be able to form more certain 

 rules for the ufe of the farmer *, but fince thefe 

 rules have been fometimes negledled, our bu- 

 finefs will not fucceed fo well *, for who does 

 not know that the north wind, fhade, and a 

 moifi foil hinder the leafing of trees as much 

 as a dry fituation on the (lope of a hill inclining 

 to the fouth promotes it ? Befides many er- 

 rors have crept into thefe obfervations, e. g. 

 fome trees between whofe leafing there ought 

 not to intervene above two or three days, are 

 often disjoyned from one another by the in- 

 terval of a fortnight •, not to mention the order 

 of leafing § 3, which trees fcarcely, or rather 

 never tranfgrefs, being tyed down to it by 

 nature herfelf, but which often does not ap- 

 pear in thefe journals ^. 



"" In the original there follows a fedlion which i have not 

 tranflated. The intent of it is to explain a table giving an 

 account of the different days of the foliation of fome trees 

 and (hrubs in Sweden, Norway, &c. which i have omitted, 

 as thinking it would afford little, or no entertainment to 

 the reader. 



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