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roots. As the Fig may be seen in good bearing condition as a 

 standard tree in Sussex, it has occurred to me that this mode of 

 culture might be practised with some advantage on our sunny 

 railway banks in* the south, which are now naked and utterly 

 useless. 



Fig. 67. 



In interring the sloping plantations a slightly different system 

 is pursued — the branches are conducted in an upward direction, and 

 covered in, as shown by Fig. 67. 



