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prepared your Ground, plant them 

 in Rows, three Feet Diftance Row 

 from Row, and a Foot afunder in 

 the Rows, clofing the Earth to their 

 Roots with your Feet. In this Nur- 

 fery they may remain two or three 

 Years, obferving to keep them clear 

 from Weeds, as alfo to trim up the 

 Side-branches every Winter, and dig 

 the Ground between the Rows ; af- 

 ter which time you may remove 

 them where they are to remain for 

 good. 



This Tree will grow upon almoft 

 any Soil ; but the better the Soil is, 

 the more the Tree will increafe in 

 Bulk. Notwithstanding which, it 

 mould not by any means be planted 

 too near the other Trees or Plants ; 

 for it will exhauti all the Goodnefs 

 of the Soil from them ; and the 

 Shade of this Tree is malignant to 

 inoft other Plants. The Dillance 

 they fliould be planted is eight Feet 

 fquare ; and after they have been 

 planted one Year, you may cut down 

 every other Tree, choofing fuch of 

 them as are crooked, within fix or 

 eight Inches of the Ground ; this 

 will cauie them to make many ftrong, 

 vigorous Shoots ; which, in feven 

 or eight Years time, will be fit for 

 Arbour-poles, or to make Hoops : 

 and the other ftrait Trees may be 

 fuffered to grow for other Timber : 

 the Number of which Trees may be 

 leifened as they increafe in Bulk, 

 leaving ftill the mod promifing ones 

 to grow for larger Timber. 



If a Wood of thefe Trees is 

 rightly manag'd, it will turn greatly 

 to the Advantage of its Owner ; for 

 by the Under-wood, which will be 

 fit to cut every feven or eight Years, 

 for the Ules above-mentioned, there 

 will be a conftant Income more than 

 fufficient to fay the Rent of the 

 Ground, and all other Charges ; and 

 fiill there will be a Stock preferv'd 



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for Timber ; which, in a few Years, 

 will be worth forty or fifty Shillings 

 per Tree. 



This Timber is of excellent Ufc 

 to the Wheelwright and Cartwright 

 for Ploughs, Axle-trees, Wheel- 

 rings, Harrows, Bulls, Oars, Blocks 

 for Pullies, and many other Pur- 

 pofes. 



The belt. Seafon for Felling of 

 thefe Trees is from November to 

 February ; for if it be done either 

 too early in Autumn, or too late in 

 the Spring, the Timber will be fub- 

 ject to be infelred with Worms, and 

 other Infects: but for Lopping of 

 Pollards, the Spring is preferable for 

 all foft Woods. 



FRITILLARIA, Fritillary or 

 Chequefd Tulip. 



The C bar a Hers are ; 



The Flower confjh of fix Leaves \ 

 and is of the bell-Jhaped Lily-flowers, 

 pendulous, naked, and, for the moji 

 fart, chequered : the Style of the 

 Flower becomes an oblong Fruit, which 

 is divided into three Cells, and filled 

 with flat Seeds, lying in a double Row: 

 the Root conffts of two flejhy Knobs, 

 which are, for the moji part, femi- 

 globular, betwixt which arifes the 

 Flowcr-falk. 



The Species are ; 



1. Fritillaria ferotina, foribus 

 ex fl'ivo virentibus. C. B. The late- 

 flowering Fritillary, with greenilh- 

 yel!ow N Flowers, commonly called 

 the Leather-coat, or common Fri- 

 tillary. 



2. Fritillaria alba precox. C. 



B. The early white Fritillary. 



3. Fritillaria alia variegata. 



C. B. The white chequer'd Fritillary. 



4 . Fritillaria jerotina, foribus 

 ex faxo virentibvs, major Bo»rh. 

 Ind. The great 1 late-fijwering Fri- 

 tillary, with a greeniih-yellow Flow- 

 er ; or the common Fritillary, by 

 fome called Snake's head Iris. 



6. Frx- 



