60 PLANTATIONS. 



That the strong language which I have here 

 employed is fully justified, will at once he admit- 

 ted hy every reflecting person, who has any 

 acquaintance with these matters ; for it will ap- 

 pear at the outset, that if a slow-growing tree is 

 planted close to one which will grow half as fast 

 again, and if the slow grower is the tree intended 

 for timber, the latter must inevitably be so much 

 damaged as to affect its health for ever, if some- 

 thing he not done to relieve it. 



I shall not, in this place, "remark" more 

 particularly on this point, than to say, that I have 

 often seen the oak in this relative position, with 

 the alder, the birch, the poplar, the larch, and 

 other trees. 



To imagine that a comparatively slow-grow- 

 ing tree can be placed in near contiguity with 

 another whose rate of progress is much quicker, 

 without receiving injury, is to manifest a want 

 of knowledge of the habits of trees, which may be 

 excused in an amateur planter, but which cannot 

 be overlooked in a practical man, who is well 

 paid for his services. 



