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Twelfth. The crop upon the ground, after the first 

 thinning is done, should never exceed 800 trees 

 per acre ; if to cut down as a crop at fifty years, 

 about 300 trees per acre should constitute the crop; 

 and if to stand till eighty years, 200 trees should be 

 upon the ground, as the most economical and useful 

 crop ; and it is doubtful if any larch plantation (as 

 a crop grown for profit) should ever contain fewer 

 than 200 trees per acre, or more at any stage of 

 growth after beincf recjulated or thinned the first time 



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than 800 trees per acre upon very dry and airy 

 districts, or 500 when sheltered and the ground dis- 

 posed to dampness. 



Thirteenth. To grow ornamental, fancy, or specimen 

 trees for other than profitable purposes, they require 

 to stand single, and at wide distances apart, from their 

 earliest planting ; and their side branches should not at 

 any period be interrupted or impeded in their growth. 



This is neither the time nor the place to discuss or 

 determine what the points of commendation in an 

 ornamental tree, as distinguished from a profitable 

 one, are or ought to be ; otherwise it might possibly 

 have been shown that there is equal beauty in a 

 clean, grand, and noble bole, as in the greatest and 

 most graceful display of branch, spray, and foliage that 

 can adorn the most gigantic but ungainly trunk. In 

 order, however, that the tree be induced to live to a 

 great age and size, it is quite evident it must be 

 placed under circumstances conducive to that end ; 

 but the conditions that promote expansive growth with 



