raifcd from feeds about three years before, and 

 which had in general exceeded in length of bole^ 

 for their age, any of the native trees of Britain thajC 

 I had known i aifed from feed. I therefore pro-, 

 mifed myfelf, in this heated afpeft, an advanugc 

 approachmg to that of their proper climate. At 

 the fame time I planted pines or firs of different 

 diftindions, and of every fpecies of foreft trees 

 frequent in our woodsy and in which were included 

 the three poplars, confidered as the aborigines of 

 our country. 



The pines more generally died, (fave on the fum- 

 mit) unlefs I here except the larch, which, if it 

 lived, poorly throve ; the Americans lived without 

 jncreafe, perifhing in the winter as low in their 

 branches as their unvigorous fummer fhoots ex- 

 tended. The birch and the fycamore fucceeded 

 moderately on this fandy flope, but no other wor- 

 thy of notice, fave the white poplar and the afp, 

 (populus alba ^ iremula) the former fucceeded 

 with a fingle exception beyond any inftance of its 

 growth I ever faw. A rooted cutting, tranfplanted 

 here about five feet high, is now in height near 

 or full thirty feet, is in girt eighteen inches five 

 feet from the ground and thirteen feet up its trunks 

 I believe there are branches nine feet in ektent. 

 Yet this progrefs makes but a part of the obvious 



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