100 THE LARCH. 



No. 20. This is a plantation about eighty years 

 old, originally planted chiefly with beech, with a small 

 mixture of oak and other trees. Having been repeat- 

 edly thinned out, as occasion required, it no longer 

 bears a profitable crop, and is now about to be cut, save 

 the oak and a few trees left for ornament. No other 

 trees answer better than oak to mix with larch or 

 ash, as it usually requires double the time of either 

 of them to attain maturity ; and may, therefore, very 

 properly be left to mature, while larch, ash, elm, pop- 

 lar, and some other description of crop are progressing, 

 which, when mature, may be either all cut at once, or 

 another series of oak might be left like the first, and 

 the same process repeated continuously. 



No. 2 I is also an old plantation, and it is proposed 

 to treat it in a manner similar to No. 20. Both this 

 and the former plantation, it will be seen, show the 

 transferable and prospective value alike, which implies 

 that they are considered as not improving further, or 

 at least that the decay of one class of trees counter- 

 balances the progress and increase of the other. 



No. 22 is a narrow hardwood belt sloping to the 

 sea, and the nearest part distant from it only a few 

 yards. It is composed of a variety of trees, the best 

 of which is the sycamore, which stands the sea ex- 

 posure better than any other. 



No. 23. This is an old and narrow belt, composed 

 chiefly of beech, which, at the time of planting, was 

 at least twice its present price per foot ; but now, save 



