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Xefl", by rooting out the unnecefTarj trees, any of tliofe tliat 

 are to remain fliould be loofened, or their roots hurt, let 

 the holes be filled up immediately, the ground well dug, any 

 kitchen- crop taken, and the trees remain untouched another 

 year ; when, in February, cut them over, referving only one of 

 the fcraighteil and moft vigorous, at the diftance of twenty-five 

 to thirty feet : You may flill continue to work the ground, and 

 take dwarf- crops between the rows for two years more ; 

 after which, they will foon cover it, and muft be left to na- 

 ture. One will readily obferve, that when any of the feeds have 

 failed at the due diftances here prefcribed, thefe defedls 

 are to be fupplied by the befl; plants, taken up at two years 

 old. 



Thus you have a plantation, the copfe-wood of which only 

 will, in feven years more, that is, fifteen years from the feed, 

 produce more than double the rent and labour, and, every 

 feven or eight years, will coniiderably increafe for forty or iifty 

 to come, when you have a foreft of noble timber- trees, that of 

 themfelves will be worth more than the value of the land at 

 the higheft purchafe-price. The timber-trees here will likewife 

 produce fruit, but neither in fuch abundance, or of fo good a 

 (Quality, as thofe that have been tranfplanted ftanding at due 

 diflances, and vs^here the ground has been properly cultivated ; 

 for tranfpl anting promotes frudification, as, from the roots 

 fpreading near the furface, the juices are better prepared and 

 digefted by the fun and air, and, of courfe, their fruits better 

 matured, and higher flavoured, than thofe can be w^hofe roots 

 run deep into the cold, lluggifli, and unprepared earth, from 

 whence they muft necefTarily ijaibibe great quantities of crud-e 



