104 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER.' 



of cultivating useful timber, either for the 

 service of the present, or the good of future 

 ages, be the planter's object, his duty is to 

 plant well-rooted, healthy, young plants, in 

 all soils and situations whatever* 



These will never fail to succeed, if even 

 common attention is bestowed on them. Re- 

 moving and planting large plants is expen- 

 sive, little understood by the labourer, liable 

 to many inconveniences, and to injury by 

 the vicissitudes of weather ; nor has the re- 

 sult generally justified the practice; but on 

 the contrary, baulked the planter's more 

 laudable intentions, by disappointing him, 

 not only of present gratification, but of fu- 

 ture gain. 



