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of investigating the subject, as far as the 

 Writer has done, will come to the same 

 conclusion, — namely, that it is verij easy 

 to grow Fir Timhe7' in this island^ proper 

 for every purpose, to which Foreign Fir is 

 usually applied :— and such as will not so 

 inform themselves, must submit to be 

 told, that their opinions, if opposite, can 

 have little weight*. 



* The consideration that the Scotch Fir, one of 

 the articles in question, will grow freely upon almost 

 any soil in the country, (the most barren heaths 

 not excepted,) adds not a little to the importance 

 of the subject : — and yet, with such facts constantly 

 before their eyes, many people seem to decide 

 upon the point without consideration, as dogmati- 

 cally as the}" would pronounce between white and. 

 black. — Dr. Smith, just quoted, who is in other re- 

 spects sufficiently zealous in advocating the cause of 

 planting, is an instance in point. — He says, *' the 

 '' Timber of the Scotch, Spruce, and Silver Firs, is 

 '* not of great value," — he likewise says, that " every 

 '* branch and leaf is a caterer for food, as well as every 

 " root and fibre, and the tree is deprived of nourish- 

 *' ment, by the loss of the one as well as the other," and 



