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; a half feet diftaiit, a foot in the line, and eight or ten inches 

 'deep, will, in two years, be flrong plants, and fit to remove 

 ■where they are defigned to remain : But to be more expeditions, 

 where iheker and fhade are immediately required, procure 

 truncheonii or ftraight poles of them, eight or ten feet high ; 

 ■ make a hole with a hard fliarp ftake, from eighteen inches to 

 two feet deep, as the pole is longer or fhorter ; and in this place it, 

 filling the hole full of water, and prefling in fome fmall mould 

 firmly about it, to keep the plant fteady. From this cheap and 

 fimple practice thefe will grow freely, and in a few years be- 

 come large trees ; and thus their culture being fo very eafy, it is 

 imnecellary to fay more on it. 



Of all the trees our climate produces, I know none fo great 

 and general advantages might be derived from, as planting Pop- 

 lars in the cold, wet, and uncultivated places of the country ; 

 they will grow luxuriantly in the pooreft wet bog-s, in the hun- 

 griefl: devouring clays, in burning fand or gravel, as well as in 

 the moft fteril barren mofs, and the guick advance they make in 

 fuch fituations is a.mazing. 3 have meafured ihoots of the white 

 Poplar eight feet long of one year's growth, and have often heard 

 of much more ; but there is hardly any land fo wet and beg- 

 ;garly as not to produce them, three or four feet annually, for 

 :many fucceflive years. 



The fhade of this tree is falubrious and friendly, both to ani- 

 mals and vegetables, and their leaves, which are ample and 

 4;hick, pregnant with rich fweet juices, fall in fuch abundance, as 

 foon to create a foil that will produce good meadow, or pafture 

 grafs, as the fituation is moift or dry. To effed this, I would 



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