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trees, and is often the Occafion of 

 the good and bad Qualities of the 

 fame Sorts of Fruits growing on 

 the fame Soil. 



What has been related about 

 grafting this Tree into the iVahmf, 

 to promote their bearing, or ren- 

 der their Fruit fairer ; or inocula- 

 ting Cherries into the Chejnut, for 

 later Fruit, is very whimfical and 

 lilly, lince neither the Chefnut nor 

 Walnut will receive its own Kind 

 any other Way than- by inoculating, 

 Oi- inarch.ng ; and it is the latter 

 only which the Wdnm can be pro- 

 pagated by j. nor was it ever known 

 that any two Trees of a differen-t 

 Genus would take upon each other 

 fo as to produce a good Trecj 

 therefore we may juftly explode 

 all thofe different Graftings of va- 

 rious Trees upon each other, fo 

 much talk'd of by tlie Antients; 

 at lealt, ^vc raa;y fuppofe thofe 

 Trees are not known by th-e fame 

 Names nov/ that they are mcn- 

 tion'd by in their Writings, for I 

 have made many Trials upon them, 

 which although perform'd with 

 great Care, and in different Seaibns, 

 yet fear cely one of them iucceeded. 

 But to return : 



If you deiign a large Planta- 

 tion of thcie Trees for Timber, 

 aficr having twice or three times 

 plough'd the Ground, and harrow'd 

 it well, the better to delfroy the 

 Roots of Weeds, you fiiould make 

 your Furrows about Iix Feet Dii- 

 ta!:ce from each other, in which 

 you Ihould lay the Nuts about ten 

 Inches apart, covering them with 

 Earth about three Inches thick; 

 and when they come up, you muft 

 carefully clear them from Weeds : 

 When thcie have remain'd three or 

 four Years, (if the Nttts iucceeded 

 v/cll) you will have many of thefe 

 Ticcs to remove j which Ihould be 



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done at the Seafons before direiS-^ 

 cd, leaving the Trees about thr<fe 

 Feet Di fiance in the Rows i at 

 wjiich Dii^ance they may remain; 

 for two or three Years more, 

 when you fhould remove every 

 other Tree, to make Room fbr the 

 remaining, which will reduce the 

 whole Pla-n-tation to li-x Feet iquare j 

 then- cut down every other of thefc 

 Trees (making Choice of the leaft 

 promiling) within a Foot of- the 

 Ground, in order to make Stools 

 for Poles, which in Icven Years 

 time will be ftrong enough to lop 

 for Hoops, Hop-poles, <&c, for 

 which Purpafes they are preferable 

 to moil other Trees; fo that every 

 feventh Year here will be a frefh 

 Crop, which will pay the P«.ent of 

 the Ground, and all other incum- 

 bent Charges, and at the fame time 

 a full (^rop of growing Timber 

 left upon the Ground r But as the 

 large Trees increase in Bulk, £o 

 their Diffance of tweke Feet iquare 

 will be too fmall , therefore when 

 tliey have grown to a Size for 

 fmall Boards, you fliould fell every 

 other Tree, which will reduce 

 them to twenty- four Feet fquare, 

 which is a proper I>ifl:anre for 

 them to remai-n fo? good: This 

 will give Air to the Under-wood, 

 (which by tiiis time would be too 

 much over-hu^g by the Clofenefs 

 cf the large Trees) by which 

 Means that 'will be greatly encou- 

 raged, and the fmall Timber fell'd 

 will pay fulBcient Interefl fcs* the 

 Money at firft laid out in planting, 

 (^c, wnth the Principal alfo ; {o 

 that all the remaining Trees are 

 clear Proiit, for the Under-wood 

 flill continuing, will pay the Rent 

 of the Ground, and all other 

 Expences ; and what a fine E- 

 ftate here will be for a {uccecd- 

 iixT; Generation, in about four- 



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