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be reared ; and many have had reason suffi- 

 cient to support them in this opinion. The 

 fact is, that, nine times out of ten, want of 

 success has been in consequence of planting 

 thin, and with too large plants, especially in 

 situations much exposed.* 



We are to distinguish between the banks 

 of the Thames, the Severn, the Humber, the 

 Forth, the Solway, the Clyde, the Murray 

 Firth, &c. and those of the " wide ocean." 

 On the former are many thriving plantations" 

 found, and situations ivell adapted to the cul- 

 ture of young ones, where no more than or- 

 dinary care has been, or may be, necessary 

 in the first outset; and some of an opposite 

 description, which I would wish to class with 

 the bleak brinks of the open sea. 



* I am aware, while I advance this assertion, that I 

 have to combat the general idea, that sea air is obnoxi- 

 ous to vegetation, and particularly to the growth of trees. 

 But, that sea air is more obnoxious to trees in general, 

 than to grain, or the herbage which may grow under 

 them, I deny. The fact is, it is the force of over pre- 

 vailing winds, which are increased and chilled by passing 

 over a vast expanse of water, which contributes to stint 

 the tree more than the grain or herbage ; on which they 

 cannot act so forcibly, nor injure so much by friction or 

 reverberation. 



