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waste of money, but is a great disappointment ; be- 

 sides the want of a strict attention to this one thing, 

 nine plantations out of ten misgive altogether ; 

 hence, the general hue and cry against planting, as 

 say they, we will never see them either ornamental 

 or profitable ; whereas, by a due attention to the 

 aforesaid, a very few years will give a proprietor both 

 ornamental and profitable plantations. See this ex- 

 plained at large in my Forester's Guide, and Profit- 

 able Planter, second edition. 



No. XXIII. 

 Field. 



The row of old trees in this field should be al- 

 lowed to stand ; not one tree taken out, as it has a 

 very commanding and beautiful look at a distance, as 

 has also the strip at the head of the field ; it affords 

 shelter to the adjoining fields, as well as ornamental 

 to the place — being planted and formed at first on too 

 narrow a principle, nothing can with safety or pro- 

 priety be taken out of it. Strips and belts of plant- 

 ing made of this kind for shelter and ornament, 

 should never be less than one hundred feet broad, 

 and always attended to in the thinning out as early 

 as possible, say when the trees are at a height of 

 eighteen or twenty feet ; they should be thinned out 

 at equal distances of twenty-five feet, tree from tree, 

 or if in very exposed places, to twenty feet, at which 

 they may stand as a finished strip or belt of planting, 

 taking special care to have them standing in a trian- 

 gular form, facing the wind. Observe, the thinning 



