254 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



CHAP. IX. 



THE VALUE OF FOREST TIMBER CONSIDERED, BOTH 

 IN A PRIVATE, AND NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW. 



FROM what has been advanced in the 

 preceding parts, particularly in the first 

 and second Chapters of this work, there re- 

 mains little to be said on this subject here ; 

 other than, as it were, to wind up the ac- 

 . count, or place in a just point of view, the 

 propriety and consequent advcmtages of plant- 

 ing useful timber. 



I do not here mean to speak to the value 

 of trees in particular ; nor to the actual pro- 

 Jits arising from planting, which must vary 

 in every district of the kingdom, according 

 to demand and locality of situation. Every 

 proprietor must be so far sensible as to this 

 point, who has ever cut an acre of timber, 

 or of underwood ; and who has considered 

 the value of the land, the profits, the ex- 

 pencts, and balanced them against that of 

 an adjoining acre for the same number of 



