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TREATISE 



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FOREST-TREES: 



CONTAI NING 



Not only die bed Methods of their Culture hitherto praclifcd, 

 but a variety of new and ufeful Discoveries, the refult of 

 many repeated experiments : 



AS ALSO, 



Plain Directions for removing moft of the valuable kinds of 

 Forest-Trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, u^ith certain 

 fuccefs J 



AND, 



On the fanie principles, (with as certain fuccefs) for tranfplanting Hedges 

 of fundry kinds, which will at once refill Cattle : 



TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 



Directions for the Difpofition, Planting, and Culture of H E D G E s, 

 by obferving which, they will be handfomer and ftronger Fences in five years, 

 than they now ufually are in ten. 



By WILLIAM B O U T C H E R, Nurseryman, 

 At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh. /3 



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IVho then Jlmll grace, or vjho iuipi-ove the foil ? 



Who plants like Bathurst, or iiho luUds like Boyle. 



T/j- ufe alone that fanSiifies expence, 



And fplendor borrows all her rays from fenfe. Popk. 



E D I J>[ B U R G H : 

 Printed by R. Fleming, and fold by the Author, by J. Murray, Xc. 32. 

 rleet-ftreel, London, and the other Bockfellers in Great Britain. 



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