SYLVA AMERICANA. 



PART III. 



ARBORICULTURE. 



Judicious planting and the skilful culture of plantations 

 combine national and private interests in an eminent degree; for, 

 besides the real or intrinsic value of the timber or ostensible 

 crop, with other produce of woods, available for the arts and 

 comforts of life, judicious forest-tree planting improves the general 

 climate of the neighborhood, the staple of the soil, as regards the 

 gradual accumulation of vegetable matter, afford shelter to live 

 stock, promotes the growth of pasture and of corn crops, beautifies 

 the landscape, and thus greatly and permanently increases the 

 value of the fee simple of the estate and adjoining lands. 



If we turn to those soils emphatically termed wastes exposed, 

 elevated lands, moors, bogs, and sterile sands composing so 

 large a portion of the United States, and naturally clothed by the 

 lowest and least valuable products of the vegetable kingdom, the 

 inferior grasses, mosses, rushes, sedges, ferns, and heaths we 

 find that upon them the more valuable domestic animals cannot 

 exist. If we consider the reason why they are so barren, waste, 

 and unproductive, when compared with other lands not more 

 favored by nature, and under similar circumstances of latitude 



