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Larches, probably, which should be standing. The 

 other two classes which I have just mentioned, 

 would be found, if the fact could be clearly come 

 at, very nearly of the same size as they had been 

 many years before ; inasmuch as they could not 

 possibly make any wood, being themselves over- 

 topped by their more thriving and vigorous neigh- 

 bours. It is perfectly obvious too, that the injury 

 arising to the Plantation would not stop here. So 

 long as under-strappers were allowed to remain, 

 they would, to a certain extent, have the effect of 

 preventing the admission of light and air into the 

 Plantation, which would materially affect the 

 health and the progress of the standard trees. 



The errors of omission are both serious and 

 numerous: those of commission, great though 

 they be, are not equally so. The former are 

 generally first in the order of time, for where 

 one Plantation is injured from too early thin- 

 ning, there are ten that suffer for the want of it ; 

 and this early neglect affects the vitality and 

 prosperity of a Plantation much more than might 

 be supposed. Omitting to do what ought to be 



done will, however, be very prejudicial to the 

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