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attended to, will make it higher flavoured, ripen it earlier in the 

 feafon, and bear a plentiful crop twenty years fooner than it would 

 otherways do cultivated in the ufual way. The belt manure for 

 fruit-bearing Walnut trees, is, ftrewing over the furface of the 

 ground with afhes the beginning of winter, the land having been 

 plow'd, or otherways laboured, before that time. 



How much 'would fuch plantations improve the beauty and 

 wealth of this nation ? and how greatly is it to be lamented, that 

 men of fortune fo feldom undertake fuch noble public works, 

 for a bleffing to the poor, the general good of the country, as 

 well as their own private intereft ? as, by the common culture of 

 this tree for fruit, large fums of money, annually fent abroad, 

 would be faved in a few years, and that too at an inconfiderable 

 expence. 



Th us having cliretSted the beft pra(fi;ice I know, for fuddenly 

 procuring plentiful crops of Walnuts, it remains to confider the 

 moll proper manner for cultivating the tree for timber. 



The Virginian kinds for this purpofe, but particularly the 

 feventh and eighth forts, are mucll preferable to the others ; they 

 grow fafter, and become larger and loftier trees, and the wood is 

 alfo faid to be of a fuperiar quality, 



Th e Walnut tree is more impatient of tranfplanting than moft 

 others , the top-roots, being of a pithy hollow texture, do not 

 agree with cutting ; which, if it does not deftroy them altoge- 

 ther, weakens them fo much, that they make little advance tor 

 feveral years, and indeed never become ^vigoraus or coxixdj 

 trees. 



