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the plantation ; but the wood is of little 

 value. 



THE common wood, or rough-leaved 

 Elm, will grow in a very poor foil to 

 great perfection, and may be planted next 

 to the Beech. Theie muft be planted very 

 thick. There are many firs and pines 

 brought from America that thrive in poor 

 land. Of theie there have been no large 

 plantations made ; what have been plant- 

 ed are for ornament, and the wood of 

 them does not feeni to differ much from 

 the Scotch, which we are Cure comes to a 

 great fize in a very poor foil, and at a 

 tliftance they have much the fame ap- 

 pearance. The beauty of fuch plantations 

 is only to be feen from cliftant views. 

 The feeds of the fame fort of trees fhonld 

 be town in every other place left vacant 

 in planting. ^t the top, where the 

 Scotch firs and larches are planted, 

 there mould be no places left, as thefe 

 trees are of a very quick growth, and the 



feeds of the fir kinds are fubjecl to be 

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