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other tenures and services his Majesty shall please to 

 accept of. 



6. Now for the planting of woods in such places 

 (which is the main design of this whole treatise) the 

 hills, and rough grounds will do well ; but they are 

 the rich fat vales and flats which do best deserve the 

 charge of walls ; such as that spot affords ; and the 

 haw-thorn well plash 'd (single or double) is a better, 

 and more natural fence, than unmorter'd walls, could 

 our industry arrive to the making of such as we have 

 describ'd : Besides, they are lasting and profitable ; and 

 then one might allow sufficient bordure for a mound 

 of any thickness, which may be the first charge, and 

 well supported and rewarded by the culture of the 

 land thus enclosed. 



7. For example, suppose a man would take in 

 500 acres of good land, let the mounds be of the 

 wildest ground, as fittest for wood : Two hedges with 

 their vallations and trenches will be requisite in all 

 the round, viz. one next to the enclosure, the other 

 about the thicket to fence it from cattle : This, 

 between the two hedges (of whatsoever breadth) is 

 fittest for plantation : In these hedges might be tried 

 the plantation of stocks, in the intervals all manner of 

 wood-seeds sown (after competent plowings) as acorns, 

 mast, fir, pine, nuts, &c. the first year chasing away 

 the birds, because of the fir and pine seeds, for reasons 

 given : The second year loosning the ground, and 

 thinning the supernumeraries, &c. this is the most 

 frugal way : Or by another method, the waste places 

 of forests and woods (which by through experience 

 is known and tried) might be perfectly cleansed ; and 

 then allowing two or three plowings, well rooted 

 stocks be set, cut and trimm'd as is requisite ; and 



