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up, with withe, or ozier-fets. If with 

 the former, they (hould ftand at four feet 

 fquare, if with the latter, at only thirty 

 inches. The firft will make hop-poles, 

 and may be cut every fixth, or feventh 

 year; the other may be cut every year, 

 for the ufe of balket- makers. The fets, 

 when planted, fliould be about the fize 

 of a man's thumb ; and fhould be cut 

 with a floping point at both ends, jufl 

 above, and juft below^ a knot, or bud. 

 They fhould be about two feet long; 

 one half fliould be p allied into the 

 ground, and the other iland out. 



Some people plant beds of afi in this 

 way; and if the beds be laid tolerably 

 dry, it generally flouriflies in Hems ex- 

 ceedingly well, and makes the befh of 

 hop-poles, and cooper's-Rufl. I have 

 ittvi fome, which were planted a few 

 years fmce near Sudbury in Suffolk upon 

 O 2 a com- 



