30 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



ture period, it is to be hoped, would be for- 

 warded from one part of our own to another 

 with much celerity and saving to the king- 

 dom, by the simple process of launching it 

 into the flood-mark. For, although (as every 

 Briton will hope) we shall continue to " bear 

 the dominion of the sea," can we imagine 

 that the forests of Norway, Sweden, Russia, 

 and America are inexhaustible ? or, that the 

 difficulty of procuring timber from them 

 may not increase? or, that our access to them 

 may never be cut off ? 



Let us, then, endeavour to render every 

 inch of waste land, uncnlturablc by the 

 plough, useful in the produce of an article 

 of so much national importance ; even if 

 it should be at the expence of appropriat- 

 ing a part of that which is culturable, and 

 which, from its local situation, may be ren- 

 dered eminently serviceable to that which is 

 not, by increasing it in volume when tool 

 small. For, it would be in vain to plant, in 

 the situation here defined, a small corner, 

 patch, or narrow stripe, with the expecta- 

 tion of ever seeing its timber rise to any con- 

 siderable stature. 



