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casions on all parts of his estate. I have oftentimes, 

 particularly on extensive wooded estates, numbered 

 and valued the whole standing timber trees and 

 plantations according to the aforesaid plan, dis- 

 tinctly marking and valuing all such as may be cut 

 for the improvement of the woods and plantations, 

 and distinguishing, marking, and valuing all such 

 as may be cut without injury to the look of the 

 woods and plantations, so that the proprietor 

 knows to a certainty, or nearly so, the annual pro- 

 duce or yearly income he can receive from his 

 woods ; and should at any time a pressing neces- 

 sity for a little more money than his yearly income 

 be wanted, he can have recourse to those trees 

 that may be cut without injury to the look of the 

 woods or plantations. Such a plan of arrangement 

 will serve the woods and wood lands on every 

 estate for forty years or more, and it will serve the 

 cuttings of natural coppice woods for all time com- 

 ing, when once brought into annual general cut- 

 tings, and cannot fail of affording the most univer- 

 sal satisfaction to all concerned for the future. 



In making all such surveys, I am particularly 

 careful to select and describe all such trees as will 

 suit the particular soil and situation, attentively 

 pointing out and recommending all such trees as 

 will live to the greatest age, become the most mag- 

 nificent, large, and ornamental trees, and which, 

 by their increasing magnitude, will give dignity, 

 antiquity, and grandeur to the domain or estate, to 

 be reared up to perpetuity. Always keeping in 

 view, that though an estate or domain may be pos- 

 sessed of many natural beauties, vet trees are the 



