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New Principles of Gardening. 
When your Nurfery has feen three Years pafled over its Head, 
rwill.be high Time to lend a helping Hand, by giving ita good 
Drefling of Dung well confumed, but beft when mix’d with 
frefh Earth, and turn’d four or five Times in the Summer be- 
fore *tis ufed; at which Time Care muft be taken that ’tis not — 
.digg’d in too deep, but rather turn’d in, for ’tis better for the 
Trees to havethe Salts of the Dung wafhed down to their Roots, 
than to have it laid clofe to them, which oftentimes canker 
and kill their tender Fibres. . 
If your Land was not frefh and hearty at your firft planting, 
it will be beft to give a Dunging in the Manner before delivered 
-the fecond Year, inftead of ftaying untill the third. 
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SECT. IL 
Of the Oak. 
O: Oaks there are divers Kinds, which were they to be 
diftinguifhed by the Difference of Leaves, Shoots, Acorns, 
Sc. would admit of as great Varieties as Pears, or any 
other Fruit whatfoever. . 
The beft Kinds are what Mr. Bradley calls the upright and 
fpreading Oak, which generally grow toa very large Stature, 
and even fo very large, (if his Report is true,) that the Timber 
alone of one Tree has been fold for upwards of fifty Pounds. 
Vide his New Improvements, Part 1. Page 42. a 
This very largeSum to be paid for one fingle Tree, obliges 
me to make fome near Calculation of the Quantity of Timber 
as mult be contain’d in fuch a Tree, to amount to fo great a Sum. 
Admit that fuch a Tree was fold at four Pounds a Load, which 
isa very great Price, and feldom or ever given for Oak, it muft 
contain twelve Load, twenty five Foot equal to fifteen Tun and 
a half, and upwards; and if the Tree was fold at fifty Shillings 
per Load, which is a cuftomary and very great Price, its Quan- 
tity mult be twenty Load, equal to twenty five Tun, which, 
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