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be flow, but it makes fine wood. The 

 acorns fhould be fbwn four in a place, at 

 fix inches diftance from each other ; and 

 the places fhould not be nearer than thir- 

 ty feet, to allow room for the under-wood. 



ASH, poplars of all kinds, tree fallow, 

 and birch are the proper underwood to 

 be planted and fown in fuch land. The 

 poplars and fallows, for planting in clay, 

 fhould be cut eighteen inches long. As 

 the clay is hard and dry, there will be 

 little moiflure to encourage their ftriking 

 roots at a greater depth, therefore they 

 fhould be let down, as before diredled, in 

 making plantations of them. 



THE ground fhould be plowed early 

 in autumn, as deep as the plow can go, 

 with a thin furrow, and ly all winter to 

 mellow. 



TH E poplars and fallows may be plant- 

 ed any time in winter, and the feeds fbwn 

 in the middle of April. This land mufl 



not; 



