2793- on the value and uses of the larch tree. 89 
ticles above enumerated as soon as their real value 
fhall be experimentally ascertained. 
Small wood for country houses. 
It is of much importance for the proprietors of 
land in every remote and unimproved part of the 
country, to be particularly attentive to supply the 
wants of the poorer clafses of the people; for what- 
ever renders their situation more comfortable, tends 
to attach them to their native spot,—to incourage 
their industry,—to awaken hope, and add energy 
to all their exertions; which are the only sure 
means of promoting improvements on his estate, 
and thus adding to the value of his property. 
Let no one therefore despise as trivial, any cir- 
cumstance which tends to ameliorate the sitna- 
tion of this humble but very useful clafs of 
pzople. 
The want of proper wood, at a cheap rate, for 
making comfortable huts for the poor, is an incon- 
venience severely felt in many parts of Britain. 
This has been in part remedied in many places in 
Scotland already, by the numerous plantations of 
firs which have been there made within the last 
twenty or thirty years; and the proprietors of 
these estates, begin already to feel the good effects 
of it. 
Larch spires pofsefs every valuable propetty of 
fir; but by being greatly more durable, and much 
lefs apt tocatch fire than fir wood, they would of 
course be proportionably more useful for these pur- 
poses. 
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