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W.S.W. front of my house ; they grew with rapidity 

 and in the second and third yuirs threw up a number of 

 su krrs at considerable distances in every direction a- 

 round them ; of these I transplanted three or four to the 

 Right hand of my N N.W. front, which grew with equal 

 rapidity, and at the end of a year or two, put forth many- 

 suckers from roots widely extended, just under the sur- 

 face of the ground. Those first planted in the W.S.W. 

 front continued so to infest my grounds intended for 

 grass walks, by immoderate numbers of suckers that in 

 the year 1813, I rooted up the parent stocks (which I 

 now have as seasoned posts upwards of ten feet lung) and 

 all t'«e suckers issuing therefrom, which 1 planted sparsim 

 in my woodlands with the hope of their forming clumps 

 around them, to prove of value in some way or other. 

 The three suckers planted on the left of my house in 

 the N.N.W. front, became equally prolific in suckers. 

 I ordered my gardener about a month ago, to uproot 

 them, and all their progeny, and to transplant the suckers 

 into vacant spots sparsim in my woodlands, which has 

 been done, and I have now three large posts upwards 

 of 10 feet long, perfectly fresh and green. From one of 

 them I have had cut the upper part, leaving a post of 

 nine feet, and had two quarters split and planed, at one 

 end obliquely, to shew the surprising growth of the wood; 

 and below this at 9 feet from the ground a cylindric 

 segment of the wood measuring between 5 and 6 inches 

 in diameter, and cut and planed obliquely on the upper 

 part, to shew that the tree has had but six years growth : 

 I send therewith the two described pieces as samples 

 of the wood. Should it prove valuable as a firm and du- 

 rable substance, whereof to manufacture useful wares, as 



