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thus I have (I hope) fully provided my Rea- 

 der with Magazines of Earth fit for the Pur- 

 pofe of Raifing Trees. 



My next, is the Raifing Wood and Foreft- 

 Trees in Nurferies, or otherwife more pro- 

 mifcuoufly in Coppices, &c. This likcwife 

 has been already handled by Mr, Eveljin in 

 his Sylva^ and Others. But befides that 

 we have now much better Methods of Rai- 

 fing Trees than they had then, at lead they 

 are more univerfally known 5 (the Rules 

 there deliver'd, being chiefly extrafted out 

 of the ancient Writings of Pliny ^ Columella, 

 &c. ) Neither is his Method fo Inftruftive 

 to a young Country Beginner as could be 

 wifli'd 5 fince the Courfe of his Diredion is 

 often broke off by Digreffions concerning the 

 Mechanical, and very often the Medicinal Ufes 

 of the Plant he is teaching to raife 5 and has 

 alfo taught the Propagation of every kind of 

 Tree feparately : Whereas one and the fame 

 Method raifes a great many kinds of Plants ^ 

 an Oak is lais'd of Maft or Seed, like the 

 Chefnut, Beach, Hornbeam, &c. 



On the contrary, I have followed and 

 enlarg'd on the Method laid down by Fjrgil 

 in his 2d Georgick, who has reduced all that 

 are rais'd by Seed into one Clafs, and thofe 

 that are rais'd by Arcuation or Laying into 

 another ^ which avoids a great deal of Re- 

 petition, and makes the raifing Trees much 

 more eafie and intelligible. I have iikewife, 

 ;is it were, chained all my Diredions one to 



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