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tree ; with this clifFcrence only, that if you chufe to remove them 

 twice, they ought only to remain two years after the fecond 

 tranfplantation. 



All the l^:inds of Acacias are much improved in their form, 

 by thrufting ftraight ftakes into the ground befide them, to which 

 the leading flioot Ihould be loofely tied with bafs. 



The firft-mentioned fort of thefe trees was formerly much 

 nfed in England for planting avenues, but for which purpofe 

 I know few plants more improper, as no art can reduce it to a 

 uniform figure ; and the branches of it are fo hard and brittle, 

 that numbers of them are broken every violent wind, from 

 whence they have a ragged and difagreeable appearance : All the 

 kinds of them, therefore, ought to be planted in the wildernefs, 

 or under the protedion of fome other plantation, where, by 

 growing in concert with other trees, they will efcape that mif- 

 fortune, and where their negligent wildnefs of growth, and 

 large bunches of fweet-fmelling aromatic flowers in fummer, 

 have a pleafmg effed, and intitle them to a place in all orna- 

 mental plantations. 



Tk£y delight mofl in a deep feeding moifl foil. 



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