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faces of both the ridges tod furrows were thoroughly 

 reduced, and the ftifF foil, which was caft at top, had 

 the lull benefit of the winter's froft and Aunmer's 

 fun. As this work was generally performed in autumn, 

 it frequently had the advantage of two winters and 

 one fummer, to ameliorate and form a good abiding 

 foil, very fit for the reception of plants ; con fider ably 

 more fo, than had it been planted the fpriog imme- 

 diately after the operation. 



Here it may not be amifs to remark, that fpring- 

 planting is almoft univerfally followed ; experience 

 having long ago pointed out, that thofe foils and af- 

 pefts are not calculated for autumnal planting. 



Ground, prepared as above, is generally managed 

 for -J. an acre ; being at the rate of 61. an acre, if the 

 whole had got a thorough trenching, which practice at 

 the commencement took place in raifed trenching,* as 

 it is termed. It was, however, foon difcovered, that 

 the raifed trenching became too dry in fummer ; nor 

 was the quantity of vegetable foil, that the filiations 

 afforded, applied fo effectually for the nouriftiment of 

 the trees, in the latter, as in the former cafe. Thefe 

 confiderations, with the great difference in point of ex- 

 pence, gave, of courfe, the preference to the former 

 mode. 



The 



* Raifed trenching is preferred in wet foils, and the trees 

 are planted without levelling the ground, and left always in 

 that ftate. 



