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with {ingiilar vigour in expofed fituations. 

 Upon the chalky hills of Surrey and Kent it 

 is the prevailing timber tree. Upon the 

 hills about Amcrfham in Buckinghamfhire, 

 too, a chalky foil, the beech thrives with un- 

 common beauty and luxuriance : and its 

 wood feems to be growing daily into eftima- 

 tion. 



Sowing the mafhs in drills, and cultivating 

 the intervals, is perhaps the mod eligible 

 method of propagating this tree for the pur- 

 pofe here mentioned. 



In the Vale, the almoll only plantations 

 which have been made with a view to utility, 

 are fmall clumps of Scotch fii\ planted for 

 the purpofc of giving Iheltcr and fhade to 

 pafturing-ilock. 



There is one inftance, however. In which 

 a more regular plan of improvement has 

 been chalked out and executed. 



This inftance of improvement having been 

 prolecutcd with judgment and perfeverance, 

 TiHd by one from whom I have received more 

 uk'tul ideas in planting than from any other 

 man I have converfed with, is noticeable. 



'^'^t fi'.Q of improvement was a low moory 



fwamp. 



