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the advantage of all feedling-trees to have 

 the beds they are ibwii in, lay fallow all 

 the year before they are fown ; and to any 

 country gentleman that is fond of plant- 

 ing, half an acre of ground more than is 

 abfolutely neceflary will not be of great 

 confequence. 



THE beds which the feedlings are raifed 

 in for poor land muft be quite cleared every 

 year : they muft be taken up with the 

 fpade carefully, fo as to break none of their 

 tap-roots ; if any are broken by accident, 

 they mutt be trimmed, and planted in forne 

 convenient place of the nurfery, to (land 

 for fome time until they are fit for plant- 

 ing in ground that is deep enough to ad- 

 mit of making holes to plant them in, and 

 they will be as good as any for that ufe f 

 as all trees that are taken from .the feed- 

 bed to plant in the nurfery fhould have all 

 their- tap-roots cut oft". 



THERE fhou-ld be no more fbwn m 

 thofe beds than can be planted every feafon, 



for 



