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a growth ; and although this is not the 

 proper foil for the oak, it will anfwer 

 veiy well when fbwn. Notwithflanding 

 there are all thofe kinds of feeds fown in 

 the broad-caft way, and covered by the 

 plow, it would not be amils, at thirty 

 feet diftance, to plant tliree of the timber- 

 tree feeds in a triangle of fix inches di- 

 ftance, and then there will be a certainty 

 of having the trees, which are to grow to 

 timber, at a regular diftance (which might 

 be marked as the labour would not be 

 much) and room for the underwood to 

 grow fo as never to be over-topp'd by the 

 timber-trees. The whole mould then have 

 a fingle ftroke with a bufh-harrow. 



IF any large weeds, fuch as thirties, 

 docks, or wild muftard, fhould grow, 

 they mould be pulled by the hand when 

 young ; as for fmall weeds, they will be 

 of fervice in winter, to prevent the frofts 

 throwing the feedlings out of the ground, 

 and will not grow in fummer to be any 

 ways detrimental to the plants ; befides, 



they 



