110 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



frequently best fitted for the nourishment of 

 trees. 



Except for the above causes, fancy should 

 be indulged in the first outset. It matters 

 little whether we plant in distinct groupes 

 or in indiscriminate mixture ; provided, iiv 

 the latter case* we ultimately retain the 

 most profitable and flourishing kinds only. 

 For, with the proviso that most of the kinds 

 evidently adapted to the soil and situation be 

 planted, according to the mode of thick 

 planting, a sufficiency of them will remain, 

 after all others are thinned away, for a full 

 and final crop. 



For instance, if it shall be supposed that 

 the soil is best adapted to the Oak, that it is 

 desirable to raise the most valuable kinds 

 rather than the decorative ; and that, exclu- 

 sive of the Larch for nurses,, and a few Firs 

 to enliven the borders, six kinds are to com* 

 pose the mixture ; plant two Oaks for one 

 Elm, two Elms for one Beech, two Beeches 

 for one Ash, two Ashes for one Birch, and 

 two Birches for one Sycamore. 



And thus will the plantation at once be 



