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ferable to the Englifh Elm ; and it has 

 another confiderable advantage, that it will 

 thrive in very indifferent ground ; but 

 it has a great tendency to grow crooked, 

 to have a large head, with yery flrong fide- 

 branches. 



IT may be pruned as the Englifh Elm; 

 but I know of no method, fo good to keep 

 them ftraight, as thick planting, and by 

 that they may be brought to be fine trees. 

 They mould be planted firfl at three feet 

 diftance, and in four years, every other 

 tree, may be taken up and removed into 

 another plantation, and planted at fix feet 

 diftance, which is fufficient room for them 

 to grow to timber. 



ALL the other kinds, of Elms may be 

 managed as the Englifh, for they are all 

 of them of the fame nature as to their 

 culture, but far inferior as to their utility, 

 efpecially the Dutch, which thrives very 

 well for twenty years, and then in general 

 is at a ftand ; betides, the wood is of no. 

 great value. 2 



