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on it in the winter, which is often the 

 cafe, they would grow very fa ft and be 

 fine trees. Some years iince I made a 

 plantation on fuch a foil, which was not 

 liable to be wet in winter. 



THE plantation was moftly the Englifli 

 oak; they in general made moots two 

 feet long the fecond year after planting ; 

 the moots were proportion ably flrong. 

 They continued to grow very quick, fo 

 that in a few years they were fuch large 

 and fine trees, that none who faw them 

 would believe but they were much older. 



THERE are now growingat Lord Downe's 

 at Cowick, in Yorkfhire, what are there 

 called the large American oaks ; they 

 are growing in fmall clumps ; they are 

 about thirty years old ; the mofl of them 

 are fifty feet high and upwards, two feet 

 diameter at bottom, fine fhaight {terns, 

 clear bark, and grow freely. 



feeds were fown where they are 

 L 3 now 



