LIST OF FOREST-TREES. 



Floras, where such have been published, of the plants of different countries ; and 

 in the perusal of these, should si doubt occur, the above enumeration will show 

 whether 1 I in question have been introduced into British planting. 



The height of the trees mentioned in the list is either such as \ve have ascer- 

 tained by actual measurement, or have been assured of by respectable authority. 

 Th. n suiting to individuals locally, and to the whole community, 



from judicious' planting, have been noticed at page 2, and subsequently in the 

 pages : and what judicious planting consists in, and what are the 

 consequent profitable results from it, have also been pointed out by an appeal to 



obtained from culture, observation, and experience; which, if examined, can 

 hardly fail to arn-st the attention of those who have given little of it to this im- 



nt subject, but who, nevertheless, possess the means thus to enrich their 

 landed possessions in their own life-time, benefit their posterity, and their 

 country. But it is not planting judiciously at first, it has been shown, that will 

 accomplish those important results, without the essential addition of subsequent 

 attention to skilful culture and management of the plantations throughout the 

 entire progress of the trees to maturity, according to the purposes for which the 

 produce of individual trees or species of trees are most valuable, and consequently 

 their proper period of duration in the soil ; these important points have been 

 dwelt upon, and frequently urged in the course of these pages (16,32, 61, G4, 

 66, and 45, 50, G7, (58, 71); 'and it may be here added, that there is more 

 absolute loss to individuals who possess plantations, but who neglect the applica- 

 tion of judicious culture to such, than accrues from the like neglect of the 

 healthy progress of any other agricultural crop whatever. Besides, it is an evil, 

 that this neglect leads to an erroneous opinion of the utility, and important 

 private and public value of judicious planting, and induces many who have it in 

 their power to plant extensively to omit it, and leave that land barren and waste, 

 which might otherwise be so beneficially occupied in the growth of timber, and 

 amelioration of defective local climates. The great extent of waste-land in this 

 kingdom has been stated at page 85. 



By referring to the county surveys, and to other sources of information, it will 

 be found that a large portion of the waste, or comparatively unproductive lands, 

 in this kingdom, is capable of being profitably employed in the growth of timber ; 

 and, taking the proportion of one-twentieth part only of the whole, there will be 

 upwards of three millions and a half of acres available for the purpose, or say, 

 one million and a half of acres for trees, and two millions of acres for conversion 

 to down-pasture, or partly tillage, by the aid of the shelter and amelioration of the 

 local climates produced by the judicious disposition of the plantations. The 

 facts and observations brought forward in evidence of the public necessity for the 

 extension of forest-tree planting, as well as the advantages accruing from it to 

 . need not here be repeated ; neither need it be recalled to mind, 

 that the perpetual consumption of timber from the natural forests of this country, 

 without any aid being afforded in return to renovate or keep up a succession of 

 by plant intr, at. last caused that scarcity of timber for civil and naval archi- 

 tecture which first led to the culture of timber-trees as an article of profit, and 

 which lias brought the art of arboriculture to a higher degree of perfection in 

 Britain than in any other country. But a similar consumption without renovation 

 .ng on in those countries from which we fallaciously expect an inex- 

 liaustibie supply of timber; and we cannot but press upon the attention of those 

 in whose power it rests, and whose duty it is to provide more largely for posterity 

 than -try has provided fur us, that with the more perfect knowledge now 



possessed of the art of planting, the large extent of fit, but unoccupied soil, and 

 of unemployed labourers, to effect the work to its fullest. 

 extent, this important object oui^ht to be forwarded with that /e:il, cncriry, and 



. which have been alre.uly displayedby some few individuals, and have been 

 uniformly attended with success. 



