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were carried without earth, will want little 

 this year ; but if they had balls there will 

 be little difference, and they muft be treated 

 accordingly, and they will frill make fine 



trees. 



IF the plantation has been planted ten 

 or twelve years, and has had no care taken 

 of it all that time, if the ground be good 

 they will be very tall and imall,.aud never 

 will be fit for planting, for they would be 

 io tall and (lender, that they would neve' 

 be able to Hand the wind, nor iuppojt 

 their own heads. 



WEAK trees taken from clofe thickets 

 feldom make good trees ; for befides then 

 being tall, they have few fide-branches, ani 

 fhoot (if they grow) ib fait at top as to b f . 

 rnoftly crooked, 



IF under-wood is of value, Inch thickets 

 are very fit to make a good wood of Mat 

 kind, but it mufl be done with cautioi: ; 

 for as the trees are tall and" fmall, and w 



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