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pare ground for Foreft-trecs, v^as to drel's and clean it 

 well before I foued the feeds; but this rule, though uni- 

 verfaliy given, has its exceptions. Witli refpetl to the 

 kitchen-gnrden, it holds for legumens, and roots of all 

 kinds, which ate the produce of a day, and are gone to- 

 morrow ; but in torefts and woods, time and experience 

 taught me another rule, for the more I digged, the lefs 

 I reaped. 



I fiiall firfl fhow the faults I committed in planting my 

 woods; and next ho-v I amended ihem, and what my 

 fuccefs was. As the trees I tranfnlanted in or- near my 

 gardens had not the defired fuccefs, I therefore immedi- 

 ately refolved to fow great pieces of ground in the wood 

 itfelf with tree feeds. This I did with great care. In 

 moft of thefe plantations I took out all tlie Junipers, 

 Broom, Brambles, with every other plant that I thought 

 would be hurtful to my young trees; I fpadcd and la- 

 boured the ground with great care, and very deep, 

 whereby I thought I might have great fuccefs; but at 

 the end of feme years, I was convinced of my error, 

 and found that extraordinary culture was the occafion 

 of the ruin of my plants. It is ufual indeed to advance 

 into expences to gain by it; but here tlie expence I bcf- 

 towed was the occafion of my lofs. 



If therefore we would hicceed in planting trees what- 

 ever the foil may be, ue mufl: imitate nature ; and in plain 

 ground where Thorns, Broom or Junipers, are want- 

 ing, I would firfl: of all fow the feed of thofe plants, 

 fome years before I fowed or planted the feeds of my 

 Foreft-trees; tor thofe bufhes protect the young 

 trees from fevere frofl in winter, and from the too great 

 heat of the fun in fummer; and a foil that is thus co- 

 vered, or but half covered, with Junipers or Broom, 

 affords an excellent protection for thefe young trees 

 when they firfl come up irom the feed. 



In planting out fome Firs I had a remarkable inflance 

 of this. The Firs were but two years from the feed. The 

 beginning of O^ober I planted a great number of them 

 in a fpot of ground pretty much overgrown withWinns: 

 at the fame time I planted a like number upon a neigh- 

 bouring piece of ground that was entirely cleared from 

 Whin-: : The effe£i was, that every onr of ihcfc trcps 



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