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very refpeftabh manner by fo doing. Let the work be 

 fet about with all fpcedand refokuion ; for every year 

 loft to planting is to be lamented, both in a public and 

 private view. 



What if forcjl trees produce nothing for the table, 

 or no immediate profit, they afford, in their raifing, 

 planting, and nurfing, prefent entertainment of a very 

 grateful kind : thev may ever after be viewed as objects 

 of fatisfa&ion, and pofierity will have reafon to praife 

 the work, and the planter. 



Plantations of foreft trees do very much ornament a 

 country, and there arefome grounds peculiarly fituated 

 to become objects of delight in this refpeel, which 

 could not be better employed. A place without trees 

 being deftitute of one of the moft ufeful materials for 

 buildings, utenfils, &c. is in truth to be lamented as 

 unfurnifhed and forlorn. The demand for wood is 

 perpetual, and the confumption is great ; and therefore 

 a provision for generations to come, by planting of 

 forejl trees, muft afford the fin cereft (becaufe molt difin- 

 terefted) gratifications of pleafure to the mind. 



Though every one has not ground to form plantations 

 of any confiderable extent, yet if it were only a fingle 

 tree here and there, i. e. to do what little might be 

 in this way, it would fhew a worthy fpirit, and make 

 a man an honourable benefaftor to fociety. Corners of 

 fields might have little clumps conveniently planted, 

 without much expence of fencing. A few trees might 

 be planted in, or rather juft without, hedge rows; but 

 thefe (hould be chiefly oaks. It is a practice with fome, 

 to plant trees in hedges when firft made ; but they are 

 commonly too GnaJl, and fo the quick choaks them, 

 and they never thrive. 



But the planting of forejl trees is profitable as well 

 as pleafing and refpe&able; and a young planter may 

 live to reap much reward from his labour, or he may 

 leave a valuable inheritance to his children. " The 



plantation 



