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lias a view of obliging pojierity with mag- 

 nalian growths. 



Among the great variety of methods 

 laid down by preceding writers for wood- 

 planting ; I have met with none Angularly 

 dired:ed to that end, at leaft not fufficiently ^ 

 I will therefore officioufly venture to give 

 my adventurous Idea of one ; Which alfo 

 over and above the other confiderations, I 

 fhould recommend particularly to thofe, 

 who would be much pleas' d to fee the very 

 great efforts, that nature with moderate af- 

 fiftance can make in fuch produdtions, du- 

 ring their ow7i life ; and which, if of any 

 continuance, even the planter himfelf will 

 have no fmall enjoyment of ; as even in the 

 firft ftages of their lives, fuch predominant 

 plants have appropriate charms : Might I 

 not likev/ife fay, have the greatnefs of infant 

 tiobles to demand our homage in their nurfes 

 arms ? Let but any man of letters that has 

 a taft of this kind, be polTeft of fuch young 

 objedis, and he will need no further argu- 

 ments, to incite his admiration of the early 

 efforts of their vegetable foul ; if with the 

 Bijldop of Cloyne I may be allow'd fo to fpeak 

 «^fee his 



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