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By this time the trees, in an ordinary foil, will be about feveii 

 or eight feet high, ftrong, well-rooted, and of a proper fize to 

 make extenfive plantations ; but where a fucceffion of large ones 

 are wanted, remove them every fourth year, pruning their roots 

 and bodies as formerly, watering them at planting, and three 

 or four times afterwards, in dry weather, every twelve or four- 

 teen days, giving them greater intervals in proportion to their 

 fize, as directed for the Elm ; from which management, they 

 may be removed at any bulk you chufe them, without any fen- 

 lible check. 



All the other kinds are propagated by budding them on the 

 common Afli, which being a large-growing hardy tree, will be 

 a confiderable improvement on the dwarfifli and tenderer forts. 



The Afli ought neither to be planted in gardens, near 

 other trees, nor in any mixt plantations. There is no plant I 

 remember, that fo foon, and fo much exhaufts the virtues of the 

 foil ; and the ihade is malignant to every produdiion of the earth, 

 being thus a ftep-dame to other trees : Let them be planted in 

 concert, where, notwithftanding thefe unfriendly qualities, if 

 properly managed, they will yield great returns of profit to the 

 owner in a few years. 



This tree will grow in very fleril barren foil, and in the 

 bleakeft and moft expofed fituations ; but in a deep mould, tho' 

 of no generous quality, and where there is no Handing water,, 

 it will quickly arrive to a great magnitude. 



Thf. wood of the Alh (next to that of the Oak) is of the moil 

 univerfal ufe, particularly for all the implements of hufbandry,. 



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