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strongly confirmed by the most extensive and intelli- 

 gent planters, that the larch plants, if properly grown, 

 well rooted, and of small size, and the ground in 

 all other respects suitable, the circumstance of being 

 a successive crop, instead of a primary one, will not in- 

 juriously if at all affect the crop. But what militates 

 most against its success is the rough herbage and want 

 of draining ; for, as a matter of fact, though perhaps 

 difficult of explanation, ground, after having borne a 

 crop of timber, becomes wetter after the wood is cut 

 than it was before planting. 



