Improvement of arable Land. 1 1 i 



your Nurferies. This is the common Way 

 of Qiiicking ; and the Seafon for this Work, 

 is froai the Beginning of February to the 

 End of March, or from September to the Be- 

 ginning of December, If you make a Fence on 

 a Bank of Earth, as ordinarily you do on the 

 Verges of Coppices and other confiderable In- 

 clofures, caft up your Dirch of about three 

 Foot broad, and three Foot deep, beginning 

 firft to turn the Turf, upon which lay fome 

 of the bell Earth to bed your Qiiick in, and 

 there fet your Plants, two in a Foot Space ^ 

 let them be frefh gathered, flreight, fmooth, 

 and well rocted, adding now and then at e- 

 qua] Spices, of about twenty or thirty Foot, 

 a young Oakling, Elm, Afn, or the like, 

 which in Time will be ornamental Standards 

 and good Timber. And in Hereforcijhire the 

 Huftindmen plant a Crab Stock at every 

 twenty Foot Diftance, in their Hedges, for the 

 Graftmg of Fruit. If you would multiply 

 your Rows, about a Foot above the tirft, plant 

 another Rmk of Sets, fo as to point jufl in 

 the Middle of the void Space of the lirft : 

 And if you would fortify your Fofs to the 

 Purpofe, do the fame on the other Side, of 

 the fame Depth, Height, and Planting, and 

 then cap the Top in Form of a Pyramid with 

 the Bottom of the Ditch : Weed them conftant- 

 ly for 2 or 3 Years, efp-ciaily before jMidJum* 

 Pier. Some cut their Sets,at 3 Ycars,even with 

 the Ground, to forward their Growth, and 

 find that in a Year or two, they will hfive 



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