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than any of them, Black-Thorn taken 

 out of the Woods, Coppices, ^c. which 

 live to Admiration, and would doubtlefs 

 thrive much better, had they been Rais'd in 

 a Nurfery, and well ftor'd with Fibrous 

 Roots. 



Tis true, that contrary to this Method ^« ^^i^^^- 

 (fay fome) fmall Qiiick is very eafily planted, **" ^^^^^ 

 and with lefs Charge. But thefe Perfons 

 ought at the fame time to confider what Ex- 

 pence and Trouble there is in making of 

 Fence-hedges, Stoop, and Rail, or other 

 Methods of fecuring them for a confiderable 

 Number of Years, while this is an immedi- 

 ate Fence, and has no manner of Occafion of 

 thofe preliminary Cares. 



But the farther Purfuit of this Point I Ihall ^ ^^y^'^^u^^ 

 leave to be the Subjeft of fome other Treatife defigneVfor 

 (if haply the prefent meets with any Encou- tkis.at ana- 

 ragement from the World) under the fame^'^^^^^'"^' 

 General Title. 



In the mean time I cann t but humbly re- 7»e Study 

 commend the Study and Praffice of thefe ^"^^^''^^^'^^ 

 Things to the Nobility and Gentry of Great- mended. 

 Britain, with all the Earneftnefs that the 

 Profit as well as the Noblenefs of the Sub- 

 jed requires, that by it they alfo gain ano- 

 ther two-fold Advantage, the Health of their f]^^^'^'^' 

 Bodies^ and, by employing the Poor, ic^p He/ith,^ 

 another, very often delivered from the Pulpit andEmpioy 

 of the laborious Divine. ^ '^fj ''' 



Neither are they lefs beneficial to the Na- 

 tion in general, as well as to Gentlemen in 

 T 2 parti- 



