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ways needful ; for if the field that it is 

 intended to be made on be clean grafs and 

 free from mofs, plowing will anfwer ; if 

 mofiy, trenching will not be fufficient ; 

 for the mofs, although turned down two 

 feet deep, is long in rotting, and turns to 

 canker, which is very deftru&ive to young 

 trees, 



IF the beft fpot that can be found is full 

 of root-weeds, bumes, or any kind of rub- 

 bifh, it will be necefTary to trench, and 

 pick out all the weeds and roots, for there is 

 no poffibility of keeping young trees clean 

 where the ground is full of root- weeds. 

 But it is feldom that needs to happen, as 

 the nurfery maybe made at a drftance/rom 

 the houfe ; and if a convenient fpot can 

 be found in a bye corner of the pleafure- 

 ground, it will not be difagreeable, efpe- 

 cially to lovers of planting, if it is kept in 

 good order ; and its being fo much in view 

 will caufe it to be kept clean, 



IF the field is a fine clean grafs, and in 

 A 4 pretty 



