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THE Lime tree is a very beautiful grow- 

 ing tree, and is very fit for fhady walks 

 and clumps for ornament, but, like the 

 Horfe-Chefnut, makes a conftant litter, 

 which is the reafon it is not now in much 

 efteem. Its wood is foft, and of no great 

 value, but for carvers and fuch trifling 

 works, fo is not a fit tree for large 'planta- 

 tions. It will thrive in foft fanct, and any 

 light foil that is dry : its favourite foil is 

 a, fandy loam, in which it will grow to a 

 great fize, and if it has room to fpread 

 will be very beautiful. 



THE Sycamore is a fine growing tree, 

 and the wood is of great ufe for turners, 

 and many other things in the furniture and 

 husbandry way ; it is alfo a very orna- 

 mental tree in plantations, and in clumps 

 where the ground is fit. It thrives bell in 

 a fandy loam ; it grows very well in all 

 light dry foils that are of a moderate depth. 

 It is worth propagating for profit, where 

 the foil anfwers, 



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