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before it meets with fome obftrtadion and 

 is turned afide, after which it fpreads and 

 runs amongft the ftones and along the top 

 of the gravel, as may be feen in natural 

 woods. 



that have been felf-fown in {tony 

 ground, their roots run many of them on 

 the top of the ground ; or if they are 

 covered when young, when they grow 

 large they rife above the furface, fo that 

 moft of the foots are feen above ground, 

 and they run the fame as if they had been. 

 planted and laid horizontally ; fo that 

 planting and fowing in bare ground is no 

 ways contradictory. 



THE Walnut : its proper foil to plant 

 in is a. fine, rich, light, black earth of twcr 

 feet deep (if it can be had) with a gravel 

 or ftony bottom ; in fuch foil the trees will 

 grow to be very large and bear great quan- 1 

 tities of fruit, and very good. It will thrive 

 on a ftrong loam, if there be a good depth 

 of it, but it will not bear much fruit^ 

 and what there is will not be good. In 



