VIGORS AND COMMONS. 45 



which is very barren ; whereas that on 

 which long heath grows is of a great depth, 

 and of a fine moift clammy nature. On 

 this foil moft of all the kinds of foreft-trees* 

 known in England will grow, even all the 

 kinds of poplars, which mews that it is of 

 a very fine moift nature. 



THE planting or fowing in fuch ground 

 is much eafier performed than in the beft 

 land : there is nothing further requifite 

 than to pull up -the heath about a foot's 

 breadth, and if you low with the large 

 tree-feeds, fuch as Acorns, Spanim Chef- 

 nuts, or Beech-Marl, they may be planted 

 with the fetting-ftick (as the pulling up of 

 the heath has loofened the ground fuffi- 

 ently) twa inches deep; four or five feeds 

 in a hole, three inches apart. 



WHERE the fmaller feeds are fovvn, fuch 

 as the Silver and Spruce Fir, the Scotch 

 Fir, the Pinafler, Weymouth Pine, and 

 Larch Tree, after the heath is pulled up, 

 chop the ground with a fpade, and drop-" 



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