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nature points out to get fucli a wood. If We wifh 

 to have a grove of large fpreacjing trees, where the 

 foil and flickered fituation warrant the probabi- 

 lity of the fuccefs of fuch an attempt, we mud not 

 plant our trees fo thick as to deprive them of all 

 their under branches, on which the beauty of every 

 tree, taken individually, depends^ and thereby make 

 a wood of poles inftead of trees. 



If we plant to cover a bleak, expofed, barren fpot 

 of ground, where, if we do not plant the trees thick> 

 it is ufelefs to plant at all, and where of courfe the 

 under branches of the trees cannot be preferved; we 

 mud not make our plantations, as is too frequently 

 done, of fo fmall a fize, that, inftead of being (as they 

 are intended to be) a (helter to the adjacent country, 

 the trees will not even llielter each other from the 

 winds, but become mofly and ftunted, and catch 

 colds which they never recover. And when the 

 owner has flattered himfelf for 30 or 40 years, that 

 he fhall live to fee the fruits of his labour come to 

 perfection, he finds he has it all to do over again. 



The great damage generally done to planta- 

 tions, next to that of fufFering them to be eaten 

 up by cattle, which is not uncommon, is by, the 

 cold winds (in this county the fouth-weftern) 



which 



