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that year's fowing, but were thinned to two 

 inches in the feed-bed, and were fine ftifF 

 plants ; the third was planted with feed- 

 ling oaks, three years old (eighteen inches 

 high) but had not been removed from the 

 feed-bed. The heath was near two feet 

 High and very ftrong. 



IN thefirft, fbwn with Acorns' and Scotch- 

 Fir-feed, many of them came up very well; 

 but the mice, which were very plentiful 

 amongft the heath, deftroyed many of the 

 acorns, fo that many of the holes were 

 quite empty, and many had only one tree. 

 Next winter many of the young (hoots of 

 the Oaks were cropped- by the hares. 

 They were to make good for three years 

 before all the holes were full, which was 

 a good deal of trouble and expence. 



THE growth of the plantation was very 

 irregular; the Firs in fome places fpread- 

 ing over the Oaks, and where they had 

 been fbwn the laft time, to make up the 

 deficiencies, not ib high as the heath. 



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