OF FOREST-TREES.

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provement of those few acres amounts to SOOl. more than the rent of the chap.vik

Find, and what it was before worth to ;be sold. . Once more, and I have

done.

Upon the estate of George Pitt, Esq. of Stratfieldsea, .in the county ofSouthampton, a survey of timber being taken in the year 1659, it came to10,3001. besides near 10,000 samplers not valued, and growing up na*turally: Since this, there hath been made, by several sales 56001. andthere has been felled for repairs, building, and necefsary uses, to the value(at least) of 12001. so as the whole falls of timber amount to 68001-.

The timber upon the same ground being again surveyed anno 1677, ap-peared to be worth above 21,0001. besides eight'Or nine thousand samplersand young trees to be left standing, and,not reckoned in the survey: Butwhat is yet to be observed, most of this timber above-mentioned, bein°-

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Oak, grows in-hedge-rows, .and so as that .the standing of it does verylittle prejudice to the plough or pasture. .

It. is likewise affirmed, that upon a living in the same place, of about401. rent per ann. there were (by an estimation taken in the year 1653)three hundred thirty-eight young timber-trees, valued at 591. the saplingsat 311. 14s. Aiid upon a later survey, taken the last year, 1677, theworth of the timber on that living is valued at above 8001. besides fouror five hundred young thriving trees, which have, since the survey in1653, grown naturally up, not reckoned in this account. With suclr,and the like instances, coming to me from persons and gentlemen of un-questionable credit, (dispersed through several Other counties of this na-tion) I might furnish a just volume; and T'h'ave produced these examplesbecause they are conspicuous, full of encouragement; worthy our imita-tion ; and that from these, and sundry others which I might enumerate,we have made this observation, that almost any soil is proper for someprofitable timber-trees or other, .which is good for very little else.

Besides common Pasture which has long been fed, and is the very best*,.

Meadow , that is up-land and rich, and such as we find to be naturallyWood-feere (as they term it) the bottoms of Downs, and like places wellploughed and sown, will bear lusty timber, being broken up and let lietill Midsummer, and then stirred again before sowing about November.

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