vil INTRODUCTION. 
5thly. Whether the important article of waed plantation — 
has been fufficiently attended to on every confiderable farm ? 
And if not, whether a fpeedy improvement may not be 
forthwith agreediion (if a farm be under leafe) for a new 
plantation, in the moft proper place or places, both with 
regard to fhelter and arnament; particularly of the beft quick- 
growing trees, as Scotch and other firs, the Abele, the Chefnut, 
the Cedar of Lebanon, and the Larch? Thefe trees, exclufive 
of their beauty, will be found expeditioufly valuable ; and 
will furnifh the means of conftant improvement in farm and 
cottage buildings.* The 4, the Beech, the Elm, and the 
Oak, in many places feem alfo to have been too little regarded, 
with a view to the fucceffive interefts of future generations. 
And it feldom happens, but fome part or parts of the 
largeft farms may be felected for a moderate plantation of 
thefe valuable trees, without any material injury, but often 
to the great probable advantage of the tenant, or of future 
tenants, in open and expofed fituations. —— The insttention 
which prevails in many parts of this country, to the cultiva- 
tion of timber-trees, is a fubjeét of juft regret! It is a firft 
principle of rural economy, and founded in obedience and 
gratitude to the great Author of Nature, that men fhould 
cultivate, improve, and adorn, as well the diftri¢ts they are 
born to inhabit, as the general {tate and capacities of their 
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* Even the moft common of timber-trees, (if it be properly called 
one) “ the willow by the water-courfes,” is in many inftances too 
rauch negleéted. That kind of wood for laths and other purpofes 
has rifen confiderably in price of late years. The plantation is one 
of the moft cheap and eafy that can be conceived, and in moft 
diftricts, near towns, plants of moderate fize will pay 7]. per head, 
for a feven years’ growth. Now, one pound per annum for a fcore 
of willows, growing along the marfhy fide of a fingle acre, proves 
that more are wanted, 
minds, 
