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main, or at most to more but once. In Sect. 11. He comes to 

 consider their final removal, and in this he is more at varianca 

 with our present practice than in any of his others, inasmuch as 

 that for some varieties he recommends a pruning of the Roots 

 and all to be planted deep " at least two feet". Although 

 he justly argues against the idea of always planting any side of 

 the tree to the same point of the compass yet still he does not 

 seem to be altogether faithless in Pliny's notions regarding the 

 "Winds which should prevail, and the age of the moon, at 

 the time of planting (p. 248.^ He expresses himself more re- 

 gardless of them afterwards (p. 2GI.J Sect. 12 — is on the se- 

 veral sorts of Soil on which Trees thrive best — fur poor, 

 gravelly, dry ground he recommends the Abealand Witch Elm 

 — for dry, sandy, deep soils, the Beech, Hornbeam, &c. — 

 Here it may be remarked that the great benefit of raising tha 

 plants from seed on the spot where they are to continue is for 

 such soils most strenuously supported by him ; a j)ractice 

 which cannot be too generally adopted for however at first 

 there may appear a gain by planting three or more years old 

 Trees, yet in the course of a few years the seedlings will generally 

 surpass their competitors. For moorish, boggy land ho re- 

 commends Alders^, Willows, &c. and a Tree wliich in Lincoln- 

 shire they call " EUer" (p. 253) In springy wet gravels — Aboals, 

 Poplars, Alders, and Elm — on stiff, rank, cold Clay — by be- 

 ing trenched, &c. Oak, Ash, <?i:c. may be grown, without any 

 such care, the Abeal, Poplar and all *• the Vimineous kinds"— 

 On moderately fertile soil, as pasture land any tree willflourish 

 —and the Ash but more especially the Abeal will grow in any 

 ground (p. 203 — 4) Sect. 13. — contains a compilation frum 

 Evelyn's Sylva and other works shewing the opinions of their 

 authors upon the above subject — i. e. the soils best suited to 

 the various kinds of Trees — Sect. 14. contains a summing up 

 from the preceding, or 11 Aphorisms deduced from the prece- 

 ding dissertations — Chap. 8. Is directions for raising Coppices 

 — he directs the stirring of the ground, insist* upon its being 



