;oi ON THICK PLANTING 



CHAP. IV. 



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 On thick Planting, and the Management of 



Woods that have been neglected. 



THICK planting has been recom- 

 mended and pracliied many years ; 

 but the method of dreffing and thinning 

 is very feldom properly performed. The 

 prejudices againft pruning are fo great, 

 that we frequently fee thickets of fmall 

 drawn-up trees of immenfe height, with- 

 gut a poflibility of ever having good boles. 



FOR the advantage of thofe gentlemen 

 that have fuch thickets within a poflibility 

 of recovery, that is, from fix years old to 

 twenty, the following directions will be of 

 uie for making fine trees of what, in a few 

 years, would be paft redemption, 



IF a plantation has been planted five or 

 fix years, and planted at three., four, five, 



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