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Having then planted your nurliiig trees, and rcjeclcd both 

 the fovving of feeds, and planthig of feedhngs in your wood ; I 

 fliould advife your plants to be four or five years old, that i,'-, 

 to have been removed at the proper times already mentioned 

 from the feed-bed, and cultivated in the nurfery two or diree 

 years, more or lefs according to their kinds, and the qucdi y- of 

 the ground whereon they Hand ; with luch finiHi your plant^iuon, 

 in the manner, and at the diftances of the Planes. Thofe mtcs 

 will be able to get the better of all weeds, but a few of the iarge- 

 growing forts ; and the land may be cultivated by hoeing in 

 fummer, and digging in the autumn and fpring months, or 

 not, agreeable to the expence you chufe to lay out, tho', if cnat 

 expence is bellowed for three or four years, the more vigorous 

 growth of tlie trees will foon amply repay it. 



When thefe plants have flood four years, but not longer, take- 

 away every fecond Plane, and, in two years more, the remain- 

 der of them, witli, every fecond tree of the other kinds, which 

 will leave the vv^holc plantation at ten feet afunder. 



Th e trees raifed cannot be loft to a perfon v/ho has any con- 

 fiderable extent of land, few large Britilli eftates being yet too 

 much crowded with wood over all parts of them. They may 

 be planted on the farms in hedge-rows, and many various 

 ways to great advantage, and would ftand a great deal of money 

 from a nurferyman ; fo that the expence of this plantation ought 

 not to be grudged, having effetfled tvfo of the moil capital 

 points on any eftate, a thriving wood, and a good nurfery. 



¥rom this time thefe plants will require no further troubiCj 

 than pruning away the ill-placed fuperfluous branches, till tliev 



