THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



No reasoning can be more erroneous ; for, 

 if a rational culture shall afterwards be be- 

 stowed, the profits, far within an ordinary 

 life-time, will rise superior in proportion, to 

 the best of its lands. 



Numberless examples might be produced 

 in proof of this ; but in giving them, I should 

 only tread the beaten paths of my predeces- 

 sors and cotemporaries. Nor could such ex- 

 amples be altogether satisfactory ; since time, 

 place, kinds of timber, its use, demand, and 

 many other circumstances must alter the 

 problem. 



However, I would wish to inculcate a just 

 remark : That much depends on attention 

 to, and management of the plantation, ac- 

 cording to its local situation, in turning it 

 generally to profit. That is to say, plant of 

 kinds, and afterwards TRAIN THEM for fuel, 

 for the purposes of husbandry, for manufac- 

 tures, for machinery, for ship-timber ; ac^ 

 cording to demand, or the probability of de- 

 mand of the vicinity of the more distant 

 parts of the country. 



And having mentioned training, I cannot 

 again help recommending, in the most ear- 



