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Thus having direcfled fuch. a culture for the Chefimt, as, 

 judicioufly pradlifed, will afluredly produce abundant crops of 

 large well-flavoured fruit, much fooner than the.ti'ee abandoned 

 to nature would have done, I lhall proceed to thofe intended 

 for timber and copfe-wood, the propagation of .which will be 

 attended with little trouble or expence. 



Let the field intended for this plantation, which requires 

 not being either warm or rich, be fallowed the preceding fum- 

 mer, and get tvv^o or three good deep plowings in winter, to 

 fweeten and pulverife the foil, and to deftroy all root- weeds. 

 Having procured and tried your feeds, as formerly mentioned for 

 the fruit-bearing trees, make drills acrofs the ground with a 

 hoe, four feet diftance, and put in your nuts, with the point or 

 eye upwards, at fourteen or iixteen inches afunder, filling up 

 the drills, and raking the furface fmooth ; and for this, and the 

 following year, you may take a line of Beans betv>^een the drills, 

 which, having their tops cut oft, and being kept clean, will be a 

 protedlion to the young plants, and encourage their growth. At 

 the end of two years, early in the fpring as has been faid, re- 

 move every fecond plant in the rows, which will leave them a- 

 bout two feet and a half afunder, and at this diftance let them 

 remain three years. With the plants taken up as above, I mean 

 the two years old, you may make any plantation required. 



At the end of the three years, remove by the roots, fo as 

 not to hurt the plants that are to continue, every fecond row of 

 trees, and every fecond tree in the remaining row, which will 

 leave them at the diftance of eight feet by five. The plants 

 now raifed will have carroty roots, and few fibres ; fo are not 

 worth planting again, but will be ufeful for ftakes and poles. 



