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The whole might be re-stocked with suitable 

 kinds of trees, without any considerable outlay to 

 the hospital, if arrangements were made with a 

 party capable of carrying out some such compre- 

 hensive plan as the following ; viz.: An agreement 

 with a responsible person, carefully worded, pro- 

 viding that he should stub, or grub up, a stipulated 

 number of acres at the commencement of a sort 

 of lease, taking the stuff, either in part payment, 

 or wholly, if it were sufficient: and that he should, 

 on such terms as could be agreed upon, continue 

 to grub up, and plant, a specified number of acres 

 every succeeding year. 



In twelve years, if the work were well done, 

 there would be some return from the thinnings of 

 the piece first planted ; and the rate of return and 

 profit, would, from that time, continue to increase 

 every year, until an amount would be realized 

 which would much more than equal the largest 

 expectations of the Governors. 



I shall only mention one case more, as to the 

 want of adaptation of the kind of tree to the soil, 

 and to the local demand, and that is a wood belong- 

 ing to the Right Honourable Lord Middle ton, at 



