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We fometimes fee it under that circumftance, 

 fhattered by winds, adorned with ivy, and 

 (hooting out a few horizontal branches, on 

 which it's meagre foliage, and tufted mofs 

 appear to advantage. I may add, that the 

 filver-fir is perhaps the hardieft of it's tribe. 

 It will out-face the fouth-wefl wind: it 

 will bear without fhrinking even the fea-air : 

 fo that one advantage at leaft attends a 

 plantation of filver-firs ; you may have it, 

 where you can have no other ; and a plantation 

 of filver-firs may be better than no plantation 

 at all. At the fame time I have heard, that it 

 is nice, in it's foil, and that an improver may 

 be liable to difappointment, who plants it in 

 ground, where the oak will not thrive. 



I know of no other fpecies of fir in 

 England, that is worth mentioning. The 

 hemlock-fpruce is a beautiful loofe plant, 

 but it never, I believe, attains any fizej 

 and the Newfoundland, or black-fpruce, is 

 another dwarfiih tree. In that character 

 however it is often beautiful; and it's fmall 



red cones are an ornament to it. In the 



vaft pine-forefts of North- America ; and in 

 thofe, which hang beetling over the cliffs of 

 the Baltic, the piclurefque eye might pro- 

 bably 



