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and by the clofenefs of their branches will 

 deftroy every thing under them ; and if 

 they are cut down after they are grown to 

 a conficlerable fize, they make a large gap. 



TH i s is the only method to get under- 

 wood in poor gravelly land. It will be 

 long after fowing, before it is fit for ufe j 

 but after it has been cut the firft time, it 

 will grow better every cutting, and laft 

 many years. 



GROUND thus managed with the plow 

 would make a fine wood, fown after the 

 following manner. Make the holes at 

 three feet diftance ; put three or four feeds 

 in a hole, at four inches diftance, in form 

 of a fquare. To the weft, north- weft, 

 north, north-eaft, and eaft, make a fkirt- 

 ing of Scotch firs, ,and another of larches 

 in the fame afpecls ; then beech, Spanifh 

 chefnuts, and acorns. The feedlings may 

 grow to the feconcl year, when they 

 fliould be drawn, except two of the beft 

 plants. Then the third year, the beft 

 ftiould be left, and the others taken away. 



