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better. Many a rare plant and animal, which 

 has borne a long voyage from distant regions, 

 has died the day after it has been put ashore 

 in England. 



There are some species of tree, also, whose 

 nature seems better able to bear such changes 

 than others : for example, the beech, which 

 even in age does not suffer like the oak from 

 having a close neighbour taken away. But 

 confining ourselves to young plantations, our 

 maxim is simply — never to plume, and ne\'er 

 to allow two trees to touch. 



In thinning, however, great care must be 

 taken to do it persistently and regularly from 

 the first. If it has been neglected at first, the 

 plantation must not have its whole system 

 thrown open all at once. To lay it as open 

 as a plantation which has been regularly 

 thinned, might be fatal to many of the trees 

 that had been left, and would expose many 

 to being uprooted by the- wind. But common 

 sense must guide the forester in such cases : 

 without that, no amount of teaching will keep 

 him out of blunders. 



