DISSERTATION 



On the C U L T U R E of 



FOREST-TREES. 



TH E Procefs I fhall lay down I do not pretend to 

 give as new, or what was never before pra£li- 

 fed ; on the contrary, I have known it in ufe by 

 many, and their fuccefs, as well as my own, for forty 

 years and upwards, engages me to recommend It to 

 all. To that fuccefs I appeal ; I claim no other praife ; 

 I court no other merit, fo I fhall proceed to dire<£l you 

 how to raife trees in woods from feed, and how to ma- 

 nage them afterwards, until they come to be cut down 

 for ufe, to the greateil: advantage. 



It is the opinion of many perfons, that before they be- 

 gin to plant their trees in the wood-way, they muft 

 make large nurferies to fill thefe grounds from the feed 

 beds. According to thofe directions they muft be tranf- 

 planted from the feed beds into the nurferies, and from 

 the nurfery into the woods, where they are to continue 

 till the axe cuts them down. In fupport of this opinion 

 they fu rtlier fay, that every time a tree is iranfplanted, 

 it acquires a new fet of fibres, whereby it fucks more 

 juices than trees, which have not been tranfplanted. 

 This I own feems very plaufible at firft ; and I fol- 

 lowed it for fome time, till I found by experience its 

 falfity. What induced me principally to follow this prac- 

 tice, is that certain rule in agriculture, that the more 

 we cultivate the earth, and drefs it, the more it gives 

 us; from whence I argued, that the befl method to pre- 

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