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away, and replaced with Oaks of fixteen 

 inches high (two years old) from the feed- 1 

 bed. They all throve very well, and a 

 few years after the plantation was pretty 

 equal, only the planted Oaks were ftirTer 

 than the fown, and not fo tall. No Firs 

 fhould be fown nor planted with Oaks, 

 let the ground be good or bad* 



IN the fecond plantation, both Oaks and 

 Firs did very well ; but in fix years the 

 fide-branches of the Firs over-topp'd the 

 Oaks ; and the feventh year there was a 

 neceffity of taking all the Firs away, which 

 was done, and Oaks of three feet high, 

 that had been removed from the feed-bed 

 into the nurfery two years, planted in the 

 room of the Firs* 



THEY all grew very well, but the firft- 

 p'lanted oaks were the fined trees ten years 

 after, which is a good reafon for making 

 all plantations for timber of fmall trees ; 

 for unlefs it be for pleafure, where large 

 trees are planted for ornamenting pleafure 

 D 2 grounds, 



