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planted; though thefe laft have ufually a more promifing appearance for the firft year Or two.

g VI.

Of the Choice of a proper Soil for a Nurfery of White-Thorn for Hedges.

WRITERS on agriculture, in general, ad- vife the farmer to be very careful to make choice of fuch plants only as have been raifed in a nurfery of a poor foil; and al- ways to reject thofe that have been reared in aericher foil, than that in which they are to be planted:* Becaufe,’ fay they, ‘a plant which has been reared in a barren foil, has been inured from its in- fancy to live hardly, and will advance with a great degree of luxuriance, if it 1s planted in one that is better; whereas, a plant that has been nurfed in a fertile foul, and has fuddenly rufhed up to a great fize, like an animal that has been pampered with high feeding, and{welled up with fat, will languifh and pine away if tranfplanted to a more indifferent foil.’ It