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but a mean appearance for fo large a trunk. I fup- 

 pofe our climate is too cold for this kind of timber, 

 which the above circumllances, as well as that of 

 the fruit feldom or never ripening, feem to evince. 



Elm, where the foil is fuited to it, is a very pro- 

 fitable tree; it does beft in fandy land; may be 

 planted in hedge-rows with lefs injury to the quick- 

 hedge than any other tree; and when once planted, 

 the fucceflion may without trouble, and with very 

 litde care, be continued for ever, by fuffering the 

 flioots that rife fpontaneoufly from the roots to grow 

 up; and this tree has not the property of burning 

 green — it is however the almoft univerfal pra6lice 

 of farmers to ftrip off its branches, which not only 

 extremely disfigures, but greatly injures it, and 

 ihould not be fuffcred* 



As to larch, from every obfervation I have made 

 and heard, it feems clear, that it is one of the moft 

 profitable trees that grows. In Lord Ailefbury's 

 plantations, where it has been raifed with other firs, 

 almoft every larch may be feen above the reft of 

 the trees. It grows well, even upon thin, gravelly, 

 or heathy land. The ftem is ftraight and clean, 

 and the deal it cuts into is nearly, if not quite, as 

 good as foreign. This tree, except in gentlemen's 



pleafure- 



