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fer, and more undigefted Diet. Befides, 1 

 do not advife the Choice of fine Earth for 

 a Nurftry, but a hearty, ftrong Land 5 

 and thofe Indulgences I grant my Plants^ are 

 only when they are firft ftriking Root 5 and 

 I believe no Perfon will ftarve his Trees, in 

 hopes to recommend them to his Soil or his 

 Friend. 



Again : There are others that having made obfewatk 

 Obfervations, how feveral of the aforemen-^"-^^" ^^- 

 tioned Trees grow on poor barren Ground 5 pfoZmon 

 the Beech and Horn-beam on the (heily, poor, o/rreejo 

 barren, rocky Land of Buckin^hamjbire 5 the 

 Holly, on the contrary, on ftiff and untradable 

 Clays, and even the Oak on Rocks and moun- 

 tainous Parts, conclude that all this Care is 

 needlefs, and perhaps add an ill Thought, 

 that the Buftle and Care we pretend to make 

 about it, are only to amufe the World, and 

 to put Gentlemen to needlefs and unnecef- 

 fary Charges for our own Advantage. 



On the contrary, thofe that have try'd this Trees tbaP 

 Point, lam apt to believe, have found them^l''^^^.^^^^^ 

 felves much deceived, there being little to^^^^^^J^^ 

 be expeded by Planting on fuch Lands ( I ^j^^ riot do 

 mean the worfer kind of Land, fuch as ifi^/^^^ 

 have feen not above two or three Inches thick lar^e. 

 of Mould, and the reft a Rubble Rock ;) 

 For however Nature may work her Effeds 

 by fowing, 'tis morally impolTible to plant 

 large Trees with any great Hopes of Sue- 

 cefs^ and this, I believe, difmal Experience 



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