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then leave six yards in breadth, and sow and plow 

 five yards more, and so from side to side, remembring 

 to leave a yard and half at the last side ; let the rest 

 of the head-lands lie, till the remainder of the close 

 be sown in March with oats, G?c. to preserve it from 

 hurt of cattel, and potching the ground ; when the 

 spring is of two years growth, draw part of it for 

 quick-sets ; and when the rest of the trees are of six 

 years shoot, exhaust it of more, and leave not above 

 forty of either side, each row five yards distant ; and 

 here and there a crab-stock to grafF on, and in the 

 invironing hedge (to be left thick) let the trees stand 

 four yards asunder ; which if forty four were spared, 

 will amount to about 4000 trees: At twenty years end 

 stock up 2000 of them, lop a thousand more every 

 ten years, and reserve the remaining thousand for 

 timber : Judge what this may be worth in a short 

 time, besides the grass, Gfc. which will grow the first 

 six or seven years, and the benefit of shelter for sheep 

 in ill weather, when they cannot be folded ; and the 

 pasture which will be had under the trees, now at 

 eleven yards interval, by reason of the stocking up 

 those 2000 we mentioned, excepting the hedges; and 

 if in any of these places any considerable waters for- 

 tune to lie in their bottoms, fowl would abundantly 

 both breed and harbour there. These are admirable 

 directions for park-lands, where shelter and food is 

 scarcy. 



But even this improvement yet does no way reach 

 what I have met withal in the most accurate, and no 

 less laborious calculation of Captain Smith upon this 

 very topic ; where he demonstratively asserts, that a 

 thousand acres of land, planted at one foot interval 

 in 7201 rows, taking up 51854401 plants of oak, 



