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In this place it is rather unneceflary to remark, that 

 the plants muft be of a tolerable fize at the time of 

 planting them out, otherwife the potatoe ftalks \vould 

 overwhelm them. I fhall only obferve, that the trees, 

 when put out, are not lefs than three feet in height, 

 and that very few of the pine kind are' planted in thofe 

 cafes, except larch, which is not fo fubjeft to fuffer in 

 the foliage as the other fpccies are. 



The fecondj and foractimes the third and fourth 

 years, it is uiual to drill out potatoes, in the fame foil 

 where they have been bedded or ridged out the firft 

 feafon ; nor is it uncommon to have a crop of turnips 

 the laft feafon, which generally fucceeds very well. 



It is needlefs to remark how rapidly plantations, 

 thus managed, get on ; but this fyftem mull be con- 

 fined to particular fituations ; in expofed ones it can- 

 not be put into practice, as, by keeping the foil loofe 

 for fuch a length of time, it could not be friendly to 

 young plantations, from what they muft fuffer by 

 florms. In ftrong abiding foils, not much expofed, this 

 mode can only be introduced to advantage. 



In the fecond cafe, or that of preparing land for lay- 

 ing down by fowing potatoes, experience has fully 

 evinced the great advantage of it io this demefne, and 

 efpecially on coarfe, boggy, and marfhy foils, where 

 tbis mode of preparing them for laying down is gene*, 

 rally and fuccefsfully followed. 



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