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 by which means I prevented the lofs of a good many of 

 my young trees in the middle of my plantation, which I 

 could not have efteftcd otherwife. 



The other inciofure I fpoke of, contained fix acres, 

 three of which I dug very well, in expedation of a fine 

 crop. The other three acres I fuffered to lie as I found 

 them, covered with Junipers, wild Thorns, Broom, fome 

 fcantling Whins and Ferns, and other Brufhwood. I 

 fowed the beft part of thofe two pieces of ground at one 

 and the fame time. In that piece which was not dug 

 nor drefl;, I opened the upper fward, and by a thruft or 

 two of the fpade only, put In my feeds ; and Indeed I 

 mufl own I was a little fparingof them, being very un- 

 certain of their fuccefs. I even was fcarcely at the pains 

 to ufe a fpade, but thrufi: the feeds below the Junipers 

 with my hands, and covered them as well as I coidd. But 

 in the other three acres which v\ere dug and dreft, I 

 fowed the feeds of the trees very thick, as in my appre- 

 henfion, from the labour I had ufed, 1 could not fail of 

 fucceeding. The event however was very different from 

 what I expected. In the drefl: piece of ground, there 

 came up a great number of fine young oaks, and other 

 trees, which, in a little time after their firfl appearance, 

 began to diminifli ; and if I had not given particular at- 

 tention to them, they would have gone off altogether : 

 while, on the contrary, the other three acres of uncul- 

 tivated land, in which Broom, Junipers, with other 

 Brufhwood grew, was a perfect wood of young oaks, 

 and other trees, which grew to great perfection, and 

 cam.e in four years time to be four or five feet high. 

 This obfervationfhows better than the former the neccf- 

 fity of a cover for young trees ; for thofe that were fown 

 in the cultivated pieces of this open inciofure, could no 

 otherwife be preferved than by planting among them 

 cuttings of Thorns, Whins, Pciplars, Saughs, y^-. to 

 protect them from the dangers of fummer's heat and 

 winter's frofts. Wherefore, to have a good wood in the 

 fields, the mofl difficult thing is to find a fufficic-nt cover 

 for them ; and to obtain that, you mull allow a field tn 

 lie wafle for ten or tv/elve years, that the Thorns, Bram- 

 bles, Junipers, and other underwood, may grow up to 

 prote6t the young trees. On the other hand, in culri- 

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