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Although the Elms are trained fo that their 

 roots are quite fiat, and the large ones as 

 they extend run juft below the furface, 

 there will be many fmall roots a great 

 depth in the fand. They will thrive fur- 

 prizingly in foft fand, but then they mould 

 be planted young and pretty deep, 



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THEIR leaves are not of that dark 

 green when in fuch fandy land ; they 

 tore them fooner in autumn and are out 

 earlier in fpring. It mould be obfer\ 7 ed, 

 that their fituation be on the loweft 

 ground, that the moiilure may fall to 



them; for although they qo not love to 



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fland in wet, yet they like a good deal of 

 moiflure, and they always thrive beft in 

 that fituation. 



IT is a tree very fit to make large plan- 

 tations of, as the wood is very valuable, 

 and will turn to great profit, if the foil be 

 proper and of a good depth ; but on poor 

 land and fhallow foils they thrive the worfl 

 of any of the fprefl kind. 



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