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may arife from each root for the firfl: fourteen years, 

 three times the number will probably be the quan- 

 tity at the end of the fecond period, which will have 

 but bare room in five feet fpace. The ufe made 

 of the poles in Warwickfliire was for hop-poles, 

 hurdles, and hoops, which were fent to London, 

 and for fencing new inclofures, of which many were 

 at that time taking place in that neighbourhoodj 

 the number of faggots alfo arifmg from the fpray 

 was not inconfiderable. My principal information 

 was from my friend Fjennes Sanderson Milder, 

 cfq; of Rodway near Kineton, Warwickfliire, who, 

 on the Colonel's mentioning my name,, would give 

 him any fatisfa£lion he wiflied. Lord Willoughby 

 DE Broke has many acres of afli planted in the 

 fame neighbourhood, which, I have been credibly 

 informed, have yielded the fame produce. An apti- 

 tude in the land to the growth of afli muft be fup- 

 pofed, and the planter's attention mufl not be taken 

 off from his infant charge, till at lead four years 

 from the time of their being committed^to the beds; 

 or in other words, they muft be kept well weeded. 

 I have planted about one hundred and fifty, as a 

 fpecimen for my collier neighbours', they are about 

 five years old, which I have requefled you to infpecl j 

 my neighbour Mr. Stephens has this year planted 

 fevcral in this mode, which is by far the cheapefl: of 

 any yet ever difcovered. 



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