I5 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



much pains have been employed. The return from 

 planting being flower than from any other fpecies of 

 cultivation, and the perfon who fets being feldom the 

 fame, that derives any confiderable profit from it, it is 

 not furprifing, that it fhould be the leafl rapid of any 

 improvement in its advances, and fhould only be under- 

 taken, when works of more preffing neceffity are ac- 

 Compliftied. By the man, who plants, trees are gene- 

 rally confidered as an embellishment, and embellifti- 

 ments are feldom thought of, until there is a compara- 

 tive degree of eafe ; when that is once obtained by in- 

 dafhious and fuccefsful cultivation, we may expect to 



fee ornament attended to, and wood, the principal fea- 



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lure in rural ornament, flourifh. Accordingly tbxafe 

 farmers, whofe circumftances are the beflr, in every part 

 of the country are beginning to put down a few trees, 

 a.nd, where the farms are fmall, a few trees on each 

 would very foon give a total change to the face of tlje 

 land. Of planting a great deal has been done by the 

 gentlemen of this county fmce the middle of the lafl 

 century, but much more towards the latter end of it, 

 and this rational and truly ufeful purfuit is daily gain- 

 ing ground; how ftrong an incitement to this purfuit 

 fhould the reflection be, that, whilft a proprietor is 

 thus employed, he is improving his health, and adding 

 to his fortune, inftead of injuring the one, or wafting 

 the. other, by indolence or by extravagance, and that 

 for every (hilling laid out he is encrcafmg twenty fold 



the 





