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The modern plantations, fuch as relate to the 

 mere embellifhment of gentlemen's feats, have kept 

 pace in this county with mod other parts of Eng- 

 land. Great bodies of firs, intermixed with a lefs 

 number of fored-trees, have been planted, by moll 

 of the gentlemen of large fortune, in their parks 

 and home grounds ; but the planting of pits, an- 

 gles, and great fcreens, upon the diflant parts of 

 their e dates, which I conceive to be a greater ob- 

 ject of improvement, has been but little attended 

 to. I (hall mention two or three plantations, and 

 add a hint upon this fubjecl, which I flatter myfelf 

 will deferve notice. 



Mr. Marfham, of Stratton, ranks firft in priority, 

 as he (like the late Lord Bathurfl) has planted 

 trees with his own hand, that he might fell for fix 

 or feven pounds a piece, if he chofe to cut them 

 down, and, among a great number of other re- 

 markably fine trees, he has a Spaniih chefnut, 

 which he planted a nut, with his own hand, and 

 afterwards tranfplanted it into a poor iandy foil, 

 which now runs, timber 58 feet, and fquares up- 

 wards of 22 inches at the butt, fo that it muft be, 

 at lead, 80 cubical feet of timber; and I trud this 

 truly refpeclable country gentleman will live to fee 

 his favourite tree increafe conliderably more, for 

 he is a comfort to the neighbourhood he Lives in, 

 and has obliged the world with many ingenious 

 oblcrvations upon nature, and has recently made 



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