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OAK-TREE. 
twenty-five to thirty feet, or more, which will not be too 
near, where the trees thrive we Is in which cafe their heads 
baths for, if the andenwood is left after the ae are a ad 
fo pe as that their heads meet, the underwood will not be of 
Quality of Soil.—The foil in which the oak 
greatelt progrefs, is ufually a deep rich loam, in which the 
trees grow to the argelt fize 3 ; and the timber of thole trees 
care taken in their cultivation ; though 
this tree will not thrive ei in all foils ; but yet it might 
muft be occupied 
return of valuable produce can be obtained from it 
in formine g planta- 
tions. But this opinion he eoutners as entirely founded in 
error, and to ae taken its rife in a great meafure from the 
want of proper management which has hitherto commonly 
peed in the raifing of oaks. It is conceived, however 
on the grou f experience, that ak may be rendered 
fiderable ne profitable pro orter ae 
at oak-timber in this coun- 
try, for the moit part, apps in trees of a confiderable ex- 
tent of head, but feldom more than twenty or thirty feet in 
ftem ; and this, in many inftances, the growth of a century, 
Now, by the courfe of management here propofed, it is con- 
ceived ciate trees, of at leaft double this pa aa may ke 
obtained in about half that time ; but it is not his intention 
to attempt a proof of this propofition by ena deduc- 
tions, but to “appeal for its confirmation to the indubitable 
teft of fa&t, which, from the event of repeated trials, im- 
prefles a conviétion, that experience will be found to fupport 
and eftablifh in the moft unequivocal manne. And in proof 
of this it is ftated that the oak, in the progrefs of its growth, 
{preads numerous roots near the furface of the ground, and 
ia an horizontal direétion 5 thefe affift in bade and pre- 
ferving the tree in its i saa n, but feem to contribute very 
little to its increafe and magnitude. Theo 
eneral, a indeed the moft effential principle i in 
the cultivation ha With a due regard to this circum- 
ftance, the m of a plantation ae be refolved into 
the eee plese pel directions 
1. Previoufly to planting the acorn, loofen the earth in- 
ieee for their eon, y deep trenching. 
ever tranfplant, or inany way aoe the faplings in- 
mee for timber. 
Keep the plant carefully pruned, till arrived at a pro- 
per height. 
n order more fully to elucidate the fubje&t, and to pre- 
vent a poffibility of mifappre oe it may be proper to 
give a more oils tale that in determining 
form a plantation of me for timber, it muft 
always be eee that the plants are to remain without 
removal in their firft fituation : os clearing aud fencing may 
be d ourfe of the 
clofe to the leading ftem. In the third year the thinning is 
ain to be repeated, and the general pruning commenced, 
by cutting off clofe to the leading ftem all the fide-fhoots of 
the firft year; thus leavin 
form the head of the following year. 
alternate plant muft be continued yearly, till the trees are 
for timber. 
ery year, 
year’s growth of fide branches, till the plants are arrived at 
a ftem 
