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cftabli/hed nurferies, where planters might refort to, 

 without being at the expeoce of fending to diftant 

 parts. It is not the price that ever deters men, who 

 only plant upon a fmall fcale, but the diftance of car- 

 riage, and the hazard of fuffering by bad packing, 

 and of the plants being too long out of ground. Thefe 

 are certainly fomc of the principal caufes of planting 

 not being more general, and not any pecuniary views. 



In the coutfe of my agricultural excurfions in 1800, 

 and 1 86 1, I have had many unpleafant reflections, in 

 travelling over waite tracts, which are fcarcely calcu- 

 lated, or ever can be, for any purpofe, except for plant- 

 ing, and where little or no expence in enclofing would 

 be found neceflary, particularly in rocky fituations, 

 where large Aones are in plenty, and might be eafily 

 collected to form rough dry walls. 



The firft great point to attend to, fhould be to give 

 every kind of encouragement to nurfery-men, con- 

 fining them only to common articles, fuch as thorn- 

 quicks, am, oak, beech, larch, fir, fycamore, alder, 

 &c. Grand juries and farming focieties might do 

 fometh'ng by way of encouragement, as well as the 

 Dublin Society. 



Were nurferies eftablimed fufficiently numerous, 

 gentlemen would be induced' to plant one hundred 

 trees for the one they do at prefent ; and, when plant- 

 ing becime general, there would be no temptation for 

 ftealing, fmce it is a well-known fact, that, when any 



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