50 ON PLANTING' 



THE young moots of the Oaks were 

 weak, being drawn, but very ftraight,. 

 and when- they got above the heath they 

 were (lender for fome years. So that I 

 think planting good young plants is better 

 than fowing acorns in fuch ground. 



THE heath had no bad effect: upon the 

 fown Firs, they grew faft and ftrong, and 

 there were few of them deftroyed by the 

 mice ; there were many to take away, 

 and thofe plants were much better than 

 thofe fown in feed-beds according to the 



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common method, and fit to plant in any 

 ground; therefore if a- plantation of them 

 were intended and fown alone, they would 

 anfwer fulL as well as planting attiongft> 

 heath. 



WHERE the feedling Oaks and Firs were 

 fown together, the Firs did not get the 

 better of them for fome years, but their 

 fide-branches at lafl fpread fo, that it be- 

 came abfolutely neceflary to take them 

 away. The whole were accordingly taken - 



away,-, 



