74 PLANTATIONS. 



too generally are, to take the lead of the Oak, 

 they will plentifully avail themselves of the licence, 

 to the serious and, perhaps, irreparable injury of 

 that plant. 



For large Plantations, intended for profit, it 

 may be questioned whether, in the first instance, 

 any thing else than Oak and Larch should be 

 planted, and the distance must be decided after 

 due consideration is given to the quality and 

 condition of the land. 



If, however, a disposition is felt to plant other 

 kinds, as nurses, there can be no objection, pro- 

 vided that their companionship is made fully to 

 square with the well-being of the trees intended 

 for timber. 



But where it is intended to introduce nothing 

 that shall not act as a good nurse for the Oak, 

 exception must certainly be taken to the Alder, 

 the Poplars, the Sycamore, the Horse Chesnut, 

 the Birch, and the Scotch Fir, &c. Not one of 

 these discovers any congeniality for the Oak, nor 

 any fitness for the office of nursing it ; and it 

 does really appear to my mind, as most unaccount- 

 ably strange, that trees of all sorts should, without 



