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on very rich, fine, deep ground ; and by a 

 gentleman who was very curious in plant- 

 ing and obferving the progrefs of the 

 growth of wood, and who had refided 

 many years in America, I was allured 

 that trees of all kinds, in that country, 

 grew as much in one year as they did in 

 England in three. He alfo affirmed* that 

 if a wood was ftubbed, and brought into 

 corn, and kept fo for fome time, and then 

 laid into grafs, in a few years it would be 

 all a wood again. 



IT is well known that it is not fo in 

 England ; for if a wood is destroyed and 

 taken into corn, and kept for that ufe for 

 fome years, when laid into grafs, if it con- 

 tinues never fo long in grafs, there grow 

 DO timber-trees; thorns, broom, and furze 



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will grow, and cover a field in a few years, 

 if not prevented, where fuch fhrubs are 

 near, and even fometimes where there is 

 no fuch thing, but that is ealily accounted 

 for, as the wind and birds may and do 

 carry the feeds ; but timber-trees never 



