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Formerly, defending the timberlings from 

 foreign enemies was the only care beftowed 

 upon "young fprings-," and this perhaps 

 not very rigidly attended to» Now, the 

 fences are pretty ftridly kept up, and the 

 plants themfelves from time to time weeded,-^ 

 provinciallyj " looked ;"* — ^that is, thinned i 

 the undervvood and crofs-growing timber* 

 iircrs being in this operation removed, to 

 give air and room to thofe which are more 

 promiling» 



The bufinefs of weeding is generally de- 

 ferred until the weedling plants have acquired 

 a degree of usefulness ; by which means 

 the operation becomes doubly profitable. 



The frjl thinning, I believe, is generally 

 given 'as foon as the undergrowth is large 

 enough for stakes, and the fecond when it is 

 long enough for rails; the former being 

 given at about ten, the latter at about twenty 

 years old. At every ten years afterward, for 

 half a century at leaft, pods as well as rails 

 may tycntrally be taken with double ad- 

 vantage. 



Timberlings trained in this way will 

 reach, in a tolerable foil and a mild fituation, 



thirty 



