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was pretty good, but not come to its full 

 growth. There was not one fprig of 

 heath on all the ground the Firs were 

 planted on, and if it had been any other 

 kind of wood but Firs, there would have 

 been good .feeding for cattle and;ilieep, 

 and good meiter. 



ALTHOUGH, in aM plantations where 

 fowing the feeds is recommended, I "have 

 given directions for lowing all the kinds of 

 Fir and Pine-feeds, yet the fowing them 

 on the place they are to remain in, on poor 

 ground, is not the befl method (unlefs 

 arnongft corn or long heath) as they are 

 fo apt to be thrown out of the ground, 

 efpecially on poor land, where they grow 

 very little the firft year, and are very fmall ; 

 and the ground being naturally very loofe, 

 they are froze in winter below the roots, 

 and many of them thrown out of the 

 ground, and fome of them are raifed fo 

 as to ftand like a fpider, with a very Imall 

 part of their roots in the earth. 



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