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(gratis circular.) 

 YOUNG PLANTATIONS. 



£The following Circular was sent to a number of Noblemen and other 

 landed proprietors in 182G, a year of unprecedented drought, which 

 will be long remembered, and may not be altogether uninteresting, 

 should the like again happen.]] 



My Lords and Gentlemen, — In this year of 

 unprecedented drought, I am well aware that your 

 young plantations must be suffering very severely, 

 especially what has been planted this season, and 

 particularly where planted on dry rocky soils. This I 

 am the more convinced of, not only from what I have 

 seen personally on different estates, and in various 

 parts of the country ; but also from the numerous 

 applications, being nearly 200, already come to 

 hand, from different Noblemen and Gentlemen in 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland, asking advice as 

 to what possible course they should take to recover 

 or save their plantations, some of which being of 

 very great extent, and which appear at present to 

 be a total failure, must occasion an immense ex- 

 pense in plants and in replanting. 



Being well aware, that there are also many 

 who have not as yet applied to me for advice, 

 whose plantations may be in a similar situation, 

 I thought of printing this Circular, containing 

 the following hints, and sending it to those 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen who have honour- 

 ed me with their employment ; and should 

 they be the means (of which I have no doubt 



