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A patch of oziERS were kept dov/n, expe- 

 rimentally, as an o7,ier bed. The growth 

 was luxuriant; and the profit, the llcond to 

 the fifth year, ample ; the produce, at icall, 

 five pounds an acre yearly : but the plants 

 beginning to decline, and an ozier ground 

 not being calculated to give the required 

 Shelter, the experiment was not purfucd. The 

 cziers which were fuffered to run up from the 

 firfi: planting, have already been cut for 

 rails. 



Gen. Obs. Upon the v/hole, it appears to 

 me evident, that the osier, the ash, and the 

 BIRCH are the mofl eligible fpccies to be 

 planted on a drained moor ; keeping them 

 in a flatc of coppice wood, and felling the 

 inner and outer edges of the border alter- 

 nately : the firit fall for flakes ; the fecond 

 and fucceeding falls for rails. 



By this means a perpetual ^.hzlter 

 would be fecurcd. 



A few Scotch firs planted at proper dif- 

 tances upon the margins, and kept pruned on 

 the inner fides, would add a degree of orna- 

 ment, without being defirudive of utility. 



F A R M S. 



