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as soon as its measure suits their purposes; 

 and its lesser girths and dimensions are suit- 

 able for the uses of " the Bobbin Turners " 

 and " Chemical Liquid Manufacturers," along 

 with other white-wood timber, as I shall give 

 the price and particulars of hereafter. 



It is universally admitted that it is best to 

 raise your oaks from acorns, as it is doubtless 

 to raise the Spanish chestnuts from nuts, as 

 both plants have a tap-root, which it is desi- 

 rable should not be broken. But this cannot 

 be done universally, because it would be un- 

 safe to trust to one acorn ; consequently you 

 must have some plants to spare, and to draw 

 out from those which are sufficient to occupy 

 the space of ground, on which you hope to 

 raise a future generation of English oak for 

 your successors. 



I shall submit, in my Appendix, a cheap 

 and practicable mode of raising oak timber 

 from acorns, which I hope and trust some of 



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