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thrive badly for fome years if they grow, 

 which is very hazardous, although they 

 are taken up with large balls. 



I HAVE been told that the wood is very 

 good (but there are no trees come to pro- 

 per age in England to judge of its good- 

 nefs) and that it hardens in water ; for if 

 it is always wet, it will laft for hundreds 

 of years ; which, if true, it would be worth 

 propagating, if only for the ufe of water- 

 w@rks. 



THE Common Spruce, the Norway 

 Spruce, the White and Black Spruce, are 

 all different fpecies of the fame tree, and 

 the fame management and culture will 

 anfwer to bring them to perfection. They 

 x are all fine trees and grow to be very large, 

 and when our plantations of them come 

 to maturity, we mall have as good wood as 

 any that is brought from Norway or any 

 other part of the globe ; and as there are 

 great quantities of ground fit for their 

 growth that is of little value, they moulcj. 

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