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difference, if they are moved once or twice 

 in the nurfery : they may be planted 

 out from thence, or from other plantar 

 tions that have been properly managed, 

 after they are large, with good fuccefs. 

 It is an excellent tree to make large plan.- 

 tations of, and will turn to great profit, 

 AS it will thrive ib well on very indifferent 

 ground. 



THE Dutch Elm is a tree that grows 

 very fail when young, if the foil be good ; 

 and as it moots immenfe quantities of fide- 

 branches, they require a good deal of 

 labour to keep them in order. It likes ^ 

 good depth of foil, a good rich loam ; 

 there it will thrive and grow very fail: fpr 

 twenty-five or thirty years, but after that 

 time it generally is at a {land, is (hmtecj, 

 and makes no figure ; the bark grows 

 rough, and the wood is of little value, fp 

 large plantations of them would not be 

 very . advantageous, efpecially as they re- 

 quire good land, which may be better em- 



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