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been raised when the quick was first planted say, 

 of a foot or more there will be room for a tree ; 

 and in all cases, where the bank has not been 

 pared down, there will be more room than is here 

 supposed. Many other places, such as the sides 

 of the banks of large ditches, the gaps of hedges, 

 &c. &c. may be met with, on almost every estate, 

 which ought to be filled with Oaks, after the 

 ground has been prepared in a suitable manner. 



But, a previous preparation of the plant is 

 necessary, Planting in Hedge-rows, where plant- 

 ing has been done at all, has been perftrmed in 

 the same ill-adapted way as every thing else rela- 

 ting to timber. The plants have been taken out 

 of the nursery, indiscriminately with others, which 

 have been intended for close planting ; instead 

 of having such, and such only, as have been 

 twice or thrice shifted, and each time into a more 

 exposed situation, and wider apart, in order that 

 they might acquire more fibrous roots, and indu- 

 ration of bark, and thus be enabled to cope with, 

 and surmount, the disadvantages of their new 

 position. Another point, which has previously 

 been hinted at, is the guarding of the trees. Xo 



