58 ON PLANTING 



WHEN the trees are grown to eight and 

 ten feet high, the young plants that fpring 

 yearly will not be fit for planting, as they 

 will be drawn weak : and although fome 

 of them mould be $irT fhort plants, they 

 will be in danger of periming when taken 

 out of fuch clofe places. So if there are 

 many of thefe trees wanted, it will be 

 the eafieit way of propagating them to 

 take up yearly all the young trees that 

 are fit, until there is a fufficiency got ; 

 then they may be allowed to grow into a 

 thick wood without any further care ; and 

 as they grow fit for ufe may be thinned as 

 wanted. 



THERE will be a great many to cut 

 out, but there is no need of thinning them 

 to any regularity or fet diftance, for the 

 thicker they grow they make the finer wood. 

 A great many will be over-topp ? d and 

 /decay, but that is not minded in countries 

 where thofe woods all grow from ielf- 

 fowing, and are the fmeft timber. 



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