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mofl gentlemen are, their pleafure in fee-* 

 ing them grow will be very great, anc! 

 give them more joy than any other amufe- 

 ment. tfhefe ars frees of my own planting 

 are words 1 have often heard repeated with 

 great content and. gladnefs. 



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ALTHOUGH I have treated a good deal 

 already on the thinning of plantations on 

 good land, I mud: again repeat a caution, 

 The methods of planting good land is 

 ikilfully and plainly taught by many ablo 

 authors, fo as to want no inflructions but 

 fome cautions, 



PLANT thick and prune carefully ac- 

 cording to the directions given for prurn 

 ing, and juft when the fide-branches be- 

 gin to meet remove every other tree, for 

 if they ftand until they are become a 

 thicket, it makes them tender for want of 

 free air, and when expoled are in danger 

 of being loft. The removed trees mould 

 J3e planted in large clumps, or in a new 

 lantation ; for trees from fuch places 



