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article becomes plenty, the temptation for pilfering 

 diminishes in proportion to the encreafe of the article. 

 I dare fay, when potatoes were firfl: introduced, it was 

 found difficult to fave them from the common people. 

 I know, from experience, that, when the turnip fyftem 

 was firfl eftablifhed at Collon, by the Right Hon. John 

 Fofter, for the firfl feafon vaft quantities ot them were 

 taken away by the common people ; but it was foon 

 found, that, by giving up a fmall part of a field for the 

 purpofe of fupplying every poor perfon, who might 

 want a few turnips, and giving a little turnip-feed to 

 fuch as might be difpofed to fow it, it foon put an end 

 to any thing like pilfering. 



So, with refpecl to timber-trees, if nurferies were 

 eftabiifhed, fo as to make thefe articles general, and 

 that gentlemen would turn their thoughts upon .divid- 

 ing with their tenants, or otherwife encourage them to 

 raife or purchafe plants, we would, in a very little time, 

 find all people difpofed to purfue one common caufe. 

 This, with long leafes, and other encouragements, 

 would foon make a great change in favour of planting. 



I have often turned my thoughts, with refpeft to the 

 moft eligible fituations for nurferies in the county. 

 Strabane, Omagh, Aughnacloy, Clogher, and Dun* 

 gannon, appear to me the beft ; not only on account 

 of finding at thofe places favourable foils and fitua- 

 tions, but alfo of dividing the county tolerably regular, 

 and, in general, convenient to the neighbouring coun- 

 ties, 



