words mote, to prevent a notion that ha* 

 long prevailed. I know there are many 

 gentlemen fo prepofTefled in that opinion, 

 that they will not allow any other kind of 

 ground far their nurieries, than" what is 

 nearly fimilar to the fail they intend to 

 plant, and this is the reafon why fo many 

 bad-thriving plantations are to be feen in 

 many parts of England. 



IF a plantation is to be made on a pbor 

 gravel or a {tiff clay, what kind of a nur- 

 fery would fuch ground make ? all the 

 plants raifed on fuch ground would be 

 poor, fmall, hide-bound, ftarved things, 

 very unfit for planting in any land, bitt 

 more fo in poor gravel or clay. 



To this it may be obje&ed, that I have 

 given directions for {owing the feeds of 

 trees on fuch ground, as the heft method 

 for railing wood in fuch foils. There is a 

 great difference between lowing where the 

 plant is to remain, and fowing to raife 

 plants to be tranfplanted ; thofe that are 



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