A DISCOURSE

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To make room , as they grow larger, grubbing up every middleTree, at 9 I. per Tree, 19800 Trees amount to 99000 I. and the re-maining 2.0601 at two hundred and twenty Years growth, at but 8 /. perTree , comes to 164808 /. besides the inferior Crop of Meadow, orCon in all this Time, sown in the Distances ; reckoning for three YearsProduct 90000 Bujhels at 5 j. per Bujbel , which will amount to2.2.500 I. besides the Straw , Chaff, &c. which at 5 s. a Load , and 3 d.a Bujhel Chaff.\ comes to 2.02.5 /. So as the total Improvement (be-sides the 217 Years Emolument arising from the Corn, Cattle ,amounts to 288333.

And these Trees (as well they may) coming to be worth for Tim-ber, 20 /. an Oak ; the twenty thousand six hundred aftd one Treesamount to 412020 I. and the total Improvement of the thousand Acres(the Corn Profits not computed) ascends to 675833 /. So as admitthere were in all England (and which his Majesty might easily com-pass, even for his own Broportion, and for Boflerity ) twenty thousandAcres thus planted, at two Foot diameter (and, as may be presumed,thirty Foot high, which in one hundred and fifty Years they might wellarrive to) they would be worth 13516660/. an immense and stupendousSum, and an everlasting Supply for all the Uses both of Sea and Land.But it is to Captain Smith’s laborious Works (to which I wilh all En-couragement) that we have the total Charge of this noble Dndertakingfrom the first Semination , to their Maturity ; by which it will beeasy to compute what the Gains will be for any greater or lefferQuantity.

But now to return to the Place of Planting (from whence this Cal-culation has more than a little diverted) we shall find, as we said, thateven in the most craggy , uneven, cold and exposed Places, not fit forArable , as in Biscay, &c. and in our very Beaks of Derbyshire, andother rocky Places, AJhes grow about every Village, and we find thatOak, Beech, Elm and AJh will prosper in the most flinty Soils. Andit is truly from these Indications, more than from any other whatso-ever, that a broken and decaying Farmer is to be distinguished from asubstantial Free-holder , the very Trees speaking the Conditions of theMafler . Let not then the Roy al Patrimony bear a Bankr7ipt’s Re-proach. But to descend yet lower.

24. Had every Acre but three or four Trees , and as many of Fruitin it as would a little adorn the Hedge-rows, the Improvement wouldbe of fair Advantage in a few Years; for it is a Shame that Turhip-planters should demolish and undo Hedge-rows near London, wherethe Mounds and Fences are ftripp’d naked, to give Sun to a few mi-serable Roots, which would thrive altogether as well under them, be-ing skilfully prun’d and lopp’d : Our Gardeners will not believe me,but I know it to be true, though Pliny had not affirmed it : As forElms (faith he) their Shade is fo gentle and benign, that it nourisheswhatsoever grows under it : And (Lib. xvii. Cap. xxii.) it is his Opi-nion of all other Trees (very few excepted) provided their Branchesbe pared away, which, being discreetly done, improves the Timber, aswe have already ffiewed.

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