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1 MAKE no doubt but it will be very 

 agreeable to all or moft gentlemen to 

 blend pleafure and profit, provided it can 

 be done without expence, and at a very 

 little lofs. 



THERE are fome trees that are of little 

 value, but very beautiful : if fome fmall 

 clumps of them were interfperfed in a 

 plantation with tafte, they would be very 

 ornamental, and the little room that mould 

 be allowed them would not be a great 

 lofs, as they would be of fome value 

 when cut, and a great beauty when grow- 

 ing. 



THIS may be done in all plantations, 

 even in the pooreft barren ground ; for the 

 moft beautiful of the flowering-trees will 

 thrive in the very poorefl dry ground and 

 coldeil fituation. 



IF the plantation is on a poor heath or 

 barren hill where there is little foil, there 

 may be planted clumps of hollies and 



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