OF RAISING WOOD 



fitable, it is advifeable to plant them in a 

 fwampy rich foil. 



TH E beft method to propagate them is 

 to cut them into truncheons of a yard 

 long, and with an iron bar let them into 

 the ground level with the furface, fatten- 

 ing the ground round them. They will 

 pufh out many (hoots the following fum^ 

 mer, which mould be all pulled off by 

 the hand die end of June, or foon in Ju- 

 ly ; only one of the flraighteft and ftrong- 

 eft fhould be left to grow to a tree. There 

 will be more (hoots puflied out in the 

 fuHitner, which mould alfo be pulled off 

 as before (for they are very fubjecl: to pufli 

 out fuckers) after which they require no 

 further care ; for if they are planted at 

 fix feet diftance; they will prune them- 

 felves, and grow very ftraight, and to a 

 great fize in thirty years, 



SOME (harpen them like a flake, and 

 drive them down with a mallet, but that 

 is not a good method ; for if in driving, 



they 



