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diflina fpecies, and fineft trees of that tribe I have feen ; many of 

 the others having httle beauty, and fome of them being only fe- 

 minal variations : I therefore thought it unnecefTary to enumerate 

 more, as all the forts may be propagated in the manner here di- 

 rected. 



The fix forts firft mentioned are trees of the largeft growth, 

 and therefore fhould be planted where fuch are required ; the 

 others, being of more hiimble ftature, may be confined to the wil- 

 dernefs, or fmaller defigns : But as the wood of the common En- 

 glifli Oak is much preferable to any of them we yet know, fo the 

 foreign kinds fliould only be propagated in fmall quantities, for 

 jornamental purpofes, at leaft till their virtues are better known. 



This tree is ufually planted out for good when very young, 

 from the general belief, that it will not fiicceed at any confider- 

 able age ; and indeed, from the common methods of its culture, 

 the obfervation is too well founded : But by following better rules, 

 which I fliall here endeavouir to give, and which are the refult 

 of very confiderable praClice, it will tranfpiant with certain fuc~ 

 cefs to a large fize. 



No tree requires more addrefs, to make a handfome well-pro- 

 portion'd free-growing plant, than the Oak ; none is more negledl- 

 ed, tho' none more worthy our attention. It is rare to fee a 

 ftraight uniform plantation of them, butivhere they are crowded 

 very thick together, or drawn up by the fhelter of other plants. 



The common method of raifing Oaks, is, by fowing them in 

 beds, very thick, and in that condition letting them fland two, 



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