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that draining is not more necessary in the 

 garden, or on the most improved, orna- 

 mented, and highly cultivated farm, than in 

 the forest. 



The bad effect of stagnant water, no 

 doubt, is sooner perceptible on culinary ve- 

 getables than on trees ; but to the latter, it is 

 equally, if not more, pernicious. To the 

 owner, it is most galling ; to the disinte- 

 rested beholder, a matter of sincere regret 

 to see thousands of trees, which have cost 

 much money, labour, and anxiety, instead 

 of being an acquisition to the proprietor and 

 the nation at large, going fast to decay, 

 stinted in infancy, drooping, and poisoned 

 by the stagnation of that otherwise most ne- 

 cessary element, and which, at a small ex- 

 pence, perhaps, might have been diverted 

 into another channel. 



Let us profit by the example ; and before 

 planting, render the soil comfortable, by 

 judiciously draining it of all stagnant, su- 

 perabundant, and noxious moisture, whether 

 in its body, or on the surface. 



To point out methods would be an end- 

 less task, and futile in many instances ; since 



