78 PLANTATIONS. 



beneficial effects have been felt, from the influence 

 of the noble Duke's example, while perfecting, as 

 he has done, his various plans for the improve- 

 ment of his fine estate. 



In the Welbeck Plantations will be found, as 

 I have said, a class of trees, most perfectly suited 

 to the situations where they stand, and giving the 

 surest promise of future superiority : but what, 

 let me ask, would ha"ve been the quality of the 

 Oaks, if the noble Duke had jumbled together an 

 incongruous admixture of various sorts, as has 

 been recommended by various writers of eminence, 

 even in our own day ? I am not disposed to enter 

 into, a controversy with any of those who have 

 recorded their opinions in their writings, otherwise 

 I might have plenty of work on my hands: it 

 will l>e quite as much as ought to be expected 

 from me, if I defend my own : but I would just 

 quote a single paragraph from an interesting and 

 useful, but, on some points, incorrect volume, pub- 

 lished by " The Society for the diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge." It is entitled "Useful and Orna- 

 mental Planting." The passage to which I refer, 

 will be found in the 43rd page, and runs thus : 



