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the grouDd, and the trees never having been thinned, they are 

 small for their age. 



No. 4 is a mixed plantation in Banffshire, favourably situated. 



In the preceding table, No. 4, the prices stated were those 

 realised at a public auction on 22d September I860. The trees 

 which brought said prices were the best of those thinned out, 

 which were equal to any remaining. 



No. 5 is a mixed plantation in Cheshire, England. The great 

 superiority of the poplar to all the other species of trees so 

 attracted the writer's attention in September last, as to lead him 

 to make a minute examination of it, of which the following is 

 the result : — It lies low ; soil, wet clay ; altitude, 100 feet ; age, 

 thirty-five years. 



