42 ON SOWING 



Ix wltt. be a great temptation to lovers 

 of trees and planting, who have planta- 

 tions going on, to thin their fbwn planta- 

 tions. When the trees are about fix feet 

 high they are then of a proper frze and 

 age, and would be very fit for tranfplant- 

 ing into any ground that is tolerably good ; 

 but then, the plantations they were taken 

 from being on poor land, they would never 

 thrive, but Hunt and grow crooked bumes, 

 as may be feen in natural woods on poor 

 ground. Where the trees are thin they 

 make no progrefs, whereas where they are 

 very thick in the fame wood and on the 

 fame foil they are very ftraight and tall ; 

 for which reafon no temptation muft pre- 

 vail to thin them at that age. 



WHERE under- wood is of great value, 

 and where there have been large planta- 

 tions made on poor land, when they come 

 to be about fix teen feet high, if there was a 

 hundred yards cut clean off by the ground, 

 then a clump of trees to (land of the fame 

 , and fo on all over the plantation, this 



Would 



