INTRODUCTORY VIEW. V 



given of the kinds most proper to be reared 

 in such situations. The most rational means 

 of producing artificial shelter, in the rearing 

 of young timber in bleak exposures, and BY 



THE MARGIN OF THE DEEP, is set forth ; 



and the propriety of planting waste lands so 

 situated, pointed out. 



The subject turns, in the second general 

 head, on the various SOILS adapted to forest 

 trees. Here a view is taken of the different 

 kinds of soils ; and their composition, tex- 

 ture, admixture, kinds of upper strata, sub- 

 strata, &c. remarked ; the soils most parti- 

 cularly fitted for the different kinds of trees, 

 with those on which they will thrive compa- 

 ratively, is then shewn : and also a general 

 view of the value, as timber, of each parti- 

 cular tree ; with the effect the soil, in which 

 they grow, has on that value. The use to 

 which the particular kinds are generally ap- 

 propriated, is likewise detailed. 



The third general head contains the me- 

 thod of nursing seedling forest trees for EX- 



