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in a few years afcer may thin them to fix feet, 

 and fo continue thinning them by degrees, 

 for poles, &-C. 



But for plantations intended in rows more 

 diftant, made v«.ith full-fized trees from the 

 nurfery, the ground need not be ploughed or 

 digged ; only dig a wide hole for the recep- 

 tion of each tree, ten to fifteen or twenty feet 

 diflance. 



Keep the plantations well fenced from cat- 

 tle, and clean from weeds, till the trees ad- 

 vance in growth; and fometinics trim up the 

 ftems from ftrong fide-lTioots, to promote a 

 ilrait handf:>me growth, and to encourage the 

 top to afpire more expeditiouily in height, 

 which alv/ays permit to remain entire, and 

 flioot up as fall as pofiible. 



And in the clofe plantations, according as 

 the trees increafe confiderabiy in growth, 

 may thin them once in f-i^ven, eight, or ten years, 

 by cutting them down to the bottom, efpecially 

 the deciduous kinds, leaving the handfomell 

 trees to remain for timber, at from ten to fifteen 

 or twenty feet, or more, when defigned to have 

 them attain the largeil growth. 



Or fome clofe plantations may be allotted, 

 to form coppices for under-wood, to cut once 

 in {Qven or eight years, for poles, fire-vvood. 

 Sec. 



Ornamental plantations of trees and (hrubs, 

 to adorn pleafure grounds, parks, and any 

 principal out premifes, confift of a collection 

 of the tree and flirub kinds in general, both 



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