7fi PLANTATIONS. 



which may be so placed as to be all weeded out 

 during the course of thinning, which ought to 

 commence in a few years after planting, and go 

 on until there remains nothing but Oak in pos- 

 session of the ground. 



In concluding my remarks on Planting, I 

 cannot help referring to the specimens of sowing 

 and thick planting, which may be seen on the 

 extensive estate of the Duke of Portland, at 

 Welbeck, and in that neighbourhood. It has 

 always been His Grace's practice, either to sow 

 Acorns, or to plant Oaks, in alternate beds, 

 having Larch between. If the Oaks were planted, 

 they were put in very thickly ; and although their 

 progress was necessarily slower than it would 

 have been, if they had been allowed more room, 

 it cannot be doubted that His Grace had a great 

 advantage in the almost unlimited choice which 

 it gave him, of trees of perfect form, for the ulti- 

 mate crop of timber. 



The system of thick planting has been fully 

 carried out: having prepared the ground well, 

 His Grace appears to have never lost sight, for an 

 instant, of the young trees that he had undertaken 



