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many filver, Weymouth, and Scotch, confiderably 
more. ‘The foreft trees are equally profperous. A 
chefhut, planted fome years fince the above, is be- 
tween 20 and 30 feet high, and 25 inches in circum- 
ference a yard above the ground; and moft of the 
kinds which were planted have thriven equally well, 
a few of the fofter woods only excepted. The pop- 
lars, tree willows, and abeles, do not fucceed here; 
they are afpiring trees, and generally fhoot up to a 
great height ina favourable fituation; but it feems 
they cannot bear the rigour of the cold winds in 
fuch an elevation, nor do they thrive when pro- 
te&ted by hardier trees which fhade and overtop 
them; for it happens to them as to moft other 
plants, when the leading fhoot is fo much injured 
as to {top its vegetation, the whole tree foon falls 
into decay and feldom thrives after. 
Wherever the plantation is five, fix, or more 
trees deep, the whole has fucceeded to admiration ; 
but when they have been planted fingle, very few 
indeed have fucceeded. It is true many of them 
are alive, but never likely to make timber, being 
{tinted in their growth, decrepid and decaying. 
As the foil, fituation, and expofure, is the fame for 
thofe as the other, the fole caufe feems to be the 
want of that warmth and protection which the 
other receive from being planted in large numbers. 
The foreft trees fucceed no better than the firs and 
pines if planted fingle, the beech, hornbeam, and 
fycamore 
