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Article XII. 



Qn Planting in the Rows of new and upland Indofiires. 

 [By Mr. John Wagstaff, Norwich.] 



HAVING often fecn and regretted the naked- 

 nefs that appears in the hedge-rows of new 

 and upland inclofures, I thought an expedient in 

 planting might be hit upon to raife profperous 

 trees, that would at once decorate and improve fuch 

 inclofures. That which appeared moft likely to 

 prove advantageous was the blacky or as it is fome- 

 times called, the red wood poplar [popidus mgra.'\ 

 This fpecics will quickly grow to valuable timber; 

 and when intermixed in the rows with the populus 

 albay [abele] makes a beautiful appearance. I ob- 

 ferved in one particular fituation a tree of the latter 

 kind, which its proprietor (who knew not how it 

 came there) called by the name of the Dutch beech. 

 With the farmer's permiflion, I lopp'd numerous 

 cuttings or fmall ftands of the former, and many 

 fuch from the latter, which had been for fome years 

 propagated in my own plantations. The general 

 length of thcfe ftands was from five to feven feet. 

 I planted them in the following method, on the 

 boundary of a piece of upland heath-ground, to 

 be inclofcd early in the fprinL,^ before the foliation 

 of any leaves could take place. 



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