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CONCERNING PLANTING 



Some additional planting may be advisable at Beaudesert; 

 although I will confess that I have never seen a place in which 

 it is less absolutely necessary. In the vast range of chace and 

 forest attached to the place, a wood of fifty acres would ap- 



pear a clump, if the whole of its outline could 



discerned 



from any elevated station 



to fring 



the summit of the 



hill with that meagre deformity called a belt, would disgrace 

 the character of this wild scenery, especially if such belt were 



composed of spiral spruce firs and larches 



mod 



fashion of making plantations 



according to th 

 has alway 



ap 



peared to me, that the miserable consideration of trade has 



introduced these quick growing trees, to make 

 turn of profit : but if the improvement of such pi 

 desert is to be computed by the rule of pound 



a s 



peedy 



re 



Beau 



shillin 



an 



pence, rt would certainly be better to cut down all the trees, 



Very different is my 

 and therefore, instead 



kill 



deer 



plough up the park 

 notion of the principle of improvement 



o 



th 



e conic shaped trees, which so ill accord with 



lish forest, and belong rather 

 Scotland, let the staple of 

 chesnut 



an 



ng 



to Norway or the Highlands of 

 plantations be oak and Spanish 



used 



let the copse be hornbeam and hazel, and let the trees 



be birch: but, abo\ 

 five or six thorns and hollies for 



e 



let there 



e at least 



these will grow up with the trees, perh 



every tree that is planted 



aps choke and destroy 





