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Feted to climb, become good bearers, efpeciaHy 

 :if chey are Tec near the reflexion of GraVeU 

 ~Waiks,or upon other Ground -kept bare from Weeds. 

 I c; the planting of Woods in general, for increafe 

 •of under Wood, Mr. wittFs way is generally 'appro- 

 ved, tocaif up double Ditches, and plant any forts 

 of Wood in the form of a Quick- fee : Some fow 

 feed on the Bancks in orderly rovs, ond fet litavife 

 on the top, as well as both tides of che Bank. The 

 time is, afloon as the Leif is fallen, in any Weather 

 .©rSeafon* 1 he Pl:.nts in a more found ground, are; 

 .Alh, Oakj Elm, Sycamore, Maples, Crabs, Thorns; 

 in a more moill Ground, as a drained Bog, Poplar, 

 Wilio.v, Sallow, ( .'■fier, which grori by Truncheon". 

 In whi< h watery foils, the way. of railing Ditches is 

 ; moll neueflary i lor neither Willo v, Silfbm Ofier, 

 nor any orher Plant, will giow in a Bog, without 

 foundnefs of ground : What Plants grow by cut- 

 tings, what by laying for the more ready thickning of 

 • Woods, may be -feeri above in the proper Chapter. 



There is a fto:y freely defended and frequently, 

 both in difecjurfes Printed and fpoken, that the chips 

 of Elm, being fo.ved, will grow • but that isfdme- 

 what like K'irchcrs experiments, before-mentioned 

 in the Chapter of cuttings,and not a whit more true $ 

 otherwtfe, to fo.v thofe Chips would be a good pro* 

 fitable and frugal way for thickning Woods, Th3 

 cawfe of the Countrey mans mi ft ike (for I furpofd 

 -'hot that this error arofe from Philofophers) f jfffii 

 " gine to be this s r t the felling of great Elms many 

 chips muit needs be fcatte ed, md file round about 

 the Tree, and be covered in Grafs thereabouts jj hOvV 

 the next year,' after the fall, there arife generally 

 great numbers of Suckers from the roots of the old 



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