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-TREATISE 



plantations of them almoft totally deftroyed by a\itumna], or 

 winter planting. 



This noble tree, "the monarch of the woods, the boaft and 

 bulwark of the Britifli nation, will grow freely in a great varie- 

 ty of foils, now either altogether wafle, appropriated to the 

 produdion cf meaner trees, or other more ignoble pm'pofes. 

 This proceeds from not attending to its nature and properties, 

 by making the experiment of planting it on all the various foils ; 

 for though, like the greateft part of other trees, it (particularly at 

 iirft) affects, a found deep mould, it will, notwithftanding, profper 

 exceedingly on the coarfefl moift gravel, loam and fand, or ftiff 

 heavy clay and till (which moll other trees abhor), and that too 

 when thefe foils are fo fteril and hungry as not to aflbrd gra- 

 zing for llieep. 



The flrip'd Oak, is propagated by budding or grafting it on 

 the common kind, and is a very beautiful variegation, which I 

 have much improved, both in the brightnefs of the colours, and 

 fize of the leaf, by joining it to the fcarlet Virginian, and 

 chefnut-leav'd kinds. 



Th e tenderer kinds of Oaks will be rendered more hardy, and 

 the dwarf kinds improved in fize, by grafting and budding on 

 the common fort, which, to thofe who incline to have all the 

 fpecies of this fine plant in its greateft perfedlion and beauty, is 

 well worth the trouble of thefe operations. 



Th e value and ufes of the wood of this tree, are fo univer- 

 fally known, that it would be an infult on the underftanding of 

 the meaneft mechanic, to employ time in relating them here. 



