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I Knew a Gentleman that set an Ash-tree before his House, which forty years after he was offered for it thirty pounds, and it is certainly to be proved, that a Gentleman in Holland sold five hundred Ashes at fifty years groweth at a far higher
rate, and that another man in the same Country planted so much wood inhis life time for the which he was offered fifty thousand pound.
There is a Gentleman now li∣ving in Essex that can lop off his own ground two thousand Willows e∣very year out of the number he for∣merly planted. His improvements of grounds for Orchards twenty pound an acre per annum, twenty a∣cres four hundred pound.
A Gentleman in Kent, besides the great benefit he converteth the ground to otherwise, advanceth to himself yearly for Cherries and o∣ther fruit of his own planting at least five hundred pounds.
There is a Knight now living in England that got a thousand pounds per annum by planting Car∣rets in a mere sandy ground.
2. There are divers in London that will give thirty pound an a∣cre to sowe Clove Gilly flowers, and so for many years. I especially by means of the Muck water, and the muck, the like benefit made per annum of red Roses.
3. There are about London that do make two hundred pound an acre by gardening, and exceeding great profit may be made there∣by in most places of England, which may be performed, only an experienced Gardner of London told me they usually fat their Cows and Swine with the offal of Gardening∣stuff