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plow'd pieces, and the other half upon the rest, and 

 as you do this, plant your prepared sets about a yard 

 distant, with store of sallow, or other cuttings with 

 them, digging that ground which you laid on the 

 plowed part a good spade deep, which will make it 

 near a foot thick to plant your sets in : Thus proceed 

 from one unplow'd ground to another till all of it is 

 planted: Two men on each side of the ridges will 

 soon dispatch the work, which would be finished by 

 the latter end of January, which is the best time for 

 the sowing your keys, nuts, and other seeds, unless 

 the weather be frosty, in which case you may a little 

 defer it : And when all is sow'd, cover them a little 

 with the shovelings of some ditches, pond, or other 

 stuff, as an assured good way to improve such grounds 

 to considerable advantage. 



For the planting of wallnuts, chesnuts, cider-apples 

 or any other forest or fruit-tree, in open fields, Mr. 

 Cook directs how the triangular form exceeds all the 

 rest for beauty and advantage : I refer you to his 33 

 Chap. 



An old and judicious planter of woods, prescribes 

 us these directions, for improving of sheep-walks, 

 downs, heaths, 6fc. Suppose, on every such walk on 

 which 500 sheep might be kept, there were plow'd 

 up twenty acres (plow'd pretty deep, that the roots 

 might take hold, and be able to resist the winds) this 

 should be sowed with mast of oak, beech, chats of 

 ash, maple-keys, sloes, service-berries, nuts, bullis, Qfc. 

 bruis'd crabs and haws, mingled and scattered about 

 the sides and ends of the ground, near a yard in 

 breadth. On the rest sow no haws, but some few crab- 

 kernels : Then begin at a side, and sow five yards 

 broad, plowing under the mast, fife, very shallow ; 



