£79 3+ on the value and uses of the larch tree. 1% 
meration of the principal uses to which some of it 
has either been already applied, or for which it may 
be employed in arts and domestic economy. 
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Garden walls, rails, and other fences. 
We can form an idea of a thousand uses to which 
this wood could be applied with economy in rural af- 
fairs, could it be obtained in abundance. Garden walls 
are reared in this country at a great expence ; and 
even when reared, are liable to many accidents : but 
were larch wood tobe had in abundance, a wall capable 
of enduring for a great length of time might be e- 
rected, by placing some upright posts of a proper 
size at due distances, and nailing upon these boards 
of larch wood, till it fhould attain the height required. 
These walls, for fruit trees, would be infinitely pre- 
sferable to any other sort yet employed, as the nails 
could always be driven precisely in the place wanted ; 
and nails ofa much smaller size than are at present 
employed, indeed tacks of no large size would hold 
perfectly firm, so as to give room for a prodigious 
saving in the article of nails ;—-and if these tacks 
were made of cast iron, which they might eas: ily be, 
the saving here would be immense. 
It_is hardly necefsary to take notice that espa 
liers of this wood would be proportionally benefi- 
cial. . 
With regard to other fences, it is sufficiently ob- 
vious that all kinds of railing would be, of this 
wood, so much more durable than of any other 
kind known in this country, as to render fences of 
that sort eligible on many occasions where they 
cannot be had at present, Were we indeed to enter 
