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various species of forest trees, effectually control 

 the planter in his modes of arrangement, &c." but 

 even with this limitation, the planter is liable to 

 be misled, for he is not taught to set a higher 

 value upon the Larch, which may in almost every 

 locality be planted with a much better chance 

 of profit, than the other kinds with which it is 

 ranked, and which ought therefore, if profit be the 

 object, for that reason alone, to be preferred. 



In any thing else but planting, the mischief 

 of such a mistake, as producing that which was 

 worthless when produced, would, in a short time, 

 have cured itself; but so little of science, or 

 even of common calculation, have been brought 

 to bear upon the practice of Arboriculture, that, 

 notwithstanding the evidence which is every where 

 to be met with, of serious " loss and disappoint- 

 ment," for want of calculation, these matters go 

 on very much as they " always have done." 



Finally, as to planting, it must, in every case, 

 be perfectly clear to one who is competent to 

 judge, that, whether the object be profit merely, 

 or the embellishment of the landscape, the land 

 ought to be as well prepared as circumstances will 



