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soil which will positively produce each kind 

 in perfection be present and distinguished. 

 Otherwise, plant in mixture, and of the kinds 

 most obviously adapted to the nature of the 

 soil and situation, in greatest quantity ; as 

 being the less hazardous method, and that 

 which admits of greater variety. 



<2dly. RELATIVE SITUATION, by which is 

 to be understood, in respect to one another ; 

 and also, locality in the site. 



Thus, we may class, first, the aquatics, as 

 the Alder, the Poplar, and the Willow ; se- 

 condly, the sub-aquatics, as the Birch, the 

 Lime, and the American Plane ; thirdly, 

 those which affect a deep sound earth, as the 

 Oak, the Elm, the Ash, the Chesnut, and the 

 Walnut; fourthly, those which become most 

 valuable on sandy or gravelly soils, as the 

 Hornbeam, the Mountain-Ash, the Beech, 

 the Larch, and the Sycamore ; and fifthly, 

 the Pine tribe, as the Scotch fir, the Spruce, 

 and the Silver-Fir, as bearing some affinity in 

 their habit and inclinations, respectively to 

 each other. 



Hence, it would appear, that if the soil and 

 situation suit the Willow, it will also suit the 



