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the firft feven or eight years, for poles and 

 other purpofes, till thinned to ten, fifteen, or 

 twenty feet dillance, or more. Others may 

 be planted in more open plantations, in rows 

 ten, fifteen, or twenty feet afunder ; but when 

 planted clofer, the trees draw up each other 

 more expeditioufly in growth, with ftrait clean 

 Hems. 



When dcfigned to make clofe plantations of 

 foreft trees,- the ground, in fituations and 

 foils that will admit of plowing or digging, 

 fhould, previous to planting, be well plowed, 

 &c. fome time before, and again at the plant- 

 ing feafon, which may commence in Novem- 

 ber, and continue occafionally, in open 

 weather, till February or March ; let the 

 trees be taken up in the nurfery with good 

 roots, of which fhorten only long ftragglers 

 and broken and bruifed parts : cut ofF llrong 

 fide-flioots of the Hem, leaving the tops entire, 

 then may be planted, either by digging 

 apertures for each tree, or, for fmall plants, 

 by drawing furrows with the plough, deep 

 enough to admit the roots a proper deptK. 

 Or fometimes, in making large clofe planta- 

 tions of foreft trees, it is elFedled by fowing 

 the feeds, &c. at once, where the trees are 

 to remain, the ground being well ploughed, &c. 

 and then draw {hallow furrows or drills with 

 the plough, five or fix feet afund^er, fow the 

 feed therein thickly, and when the plants are 

 of one or two, or three years growth, thin 

 them to three feet dillraicc in the lines ; and 



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