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time be much finer trees than they would 

 have been at the age if they had not been 

 cut down. 



PLANTATIONS that have been planted 

 on tolerable or even very good land with 

 trees from the nurfery, of five or iix feet 

 high, and do not feem to thrive, whofe 

 bark looks reddifh, and pufh many fmall 

 fide-fhoots, and whofe leading (hoot often 

 decays, after they have been planted three 

 or four years, if they do not take to grow- 

 ing, cut them off an inch below the ground 

 in any of the winter months. 



THEY will pufh many moots next fum- 

 mer ; in the beginning of July pull them 

 all off but one of the ftrongefl ; fatten 

 the earth about the moot to prevent the 

 wind breaking it, which is the only dan- 

 ger it is liable to ; they will then grow 

 very freely, and foon be fine trees, 



THIS method will anfwer very well for 



all kinds of deciduous trees, the oak in 



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