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lions occafionally, as many forts of trees, &c. 



may be railed abundantly from feed, in the 

 common ground, fowed in the Spring, in 

 beds of mellow earth, others by fuckers, 

 layers, cuttings, grafting and inoculating; 

 and when the young trees and fhrubs; either 

 in the public or private nurferies, are from 

 one, two, or three, to five, fix, or feven feet 

 high, or more, according to the nature of 

 growth of the different forts, they are of eli- 

 gible fize for final tranl'planting in the fevcral 

 plantations intended ; though, on particular 

 occafions, ferae tree kinds of ten to fifteen 

 feet high, or more, may be removed, parti» 

 cularly fome of the deciduous tribe, as elms, 

 poplars, limes, &:c. However, for general 

 planting, it is always preferable to plant theni 

 in moderately young growth, as they will 

 fooner take good root, and eftablifti themfelves 

 more effedually. 



As all the trees and fhrubs eligible for the 

 fore- mentioned dirferent plantations are of 

 hardy growth, to grow in almoft any expofure 

 in the full ground, rhey are collefted in one 

 general arrangement, with all the fpecies and 

 varieties arranged in their proper genera, or 

 families, under the botanic and general £ng- 

 Ii(h name of the refpeftive geniera, and with 

 the proper name of each ipscies, &c. And 

 although, in this divifion, xhhre are numerous 

 fpecies that are natives originally of diftant 

 countries in Europe and America, &c. they 

 are naturalized to this climate, (n as they will 

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