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most frequently, in their being too old: that as to 

 the kind, in not choosing such as are adapted to 

 the nature of the soil. 



A third class of planters may he met with, 

 who, to a certain extent, avoid all the mistakes 

 previously referred to, but who commit the un- 

 accountable blunder of throwing the various kinds 

 promiscuously together, without any regard to 

 congeniality as to the plants; and in this case, 

 the trees that are really valuable are overtopped, 

 and mastered by a set of worthless trash, which, 

 when full grown, are hardly worth the trouble of 

 cutting down. When a Plantation is made in this 

 barbarous manner, and left in this state for twenty 

 years, or even less, no subsequent efforts, however 

 sound the judgment which is exercised may be, 

 can wholly repair the mischief which is "Hone. By 

 this mistake, an immense loss of property accrues 

 to the proprietor, and the worst of all is, that the 

 trite consolation is not left him, that what is "his 

 loss, is another's gain," for here nobody is bene- 

 fitted ; while to himself there is superadded the 

 mortification of a loss of time, "which no man 

 can restore." 



