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to say, where there is very little soil, as enough of 

 this has been already done to convince of its impro- 

 priety. The method to be followed up here, and in 

 all similar places, is to put in oak acorns upon all 

 the rocky places, where there is not above from one 

 to eight inches of soil of any kind ; wherever there 

 is from one inch of soil, up to eight inches, the whole 

 should be planted with acorns, as a very few acorns 

 will go over the whole ground ; the expense is tri- 

 fling ; they may be put in at one foot or eighteen 

 inches distant from each other j so much for all the 

 very bare thin places. There are a great many hol- 

 low or furrow places, betwixt and amongst the rocks, 

 where there are depth of soil ; and in many places 

 of this kind, within the said boundary, the plants 

 are thriving well. Now as it is all and every thing 

 to get up a planting of any kind here as soon as pos- 

 sible, plant all such places with larch firs first, and 

 nothing else, at two feet distant, plant from plant, 

 putting the larch firs up the face of the bare rocky 

 places, wherever the soil is above eight inches deep ; 

 where the acorns is to be planted, and persevere in 

 keeping the ground full of larch firs, till they are 

 from four to six feet high, when they will have kill- 

 ed the heath or every pernicious weed, and made a 

 fine soil ; then cut the larch firs out to four feet, 

 plant or tree from tree, and plant in oak, Spanish 

 chesnut, plane, beech, ash, elm, Scotch, and spruce 

 firs. As the larch is by no means a tree that is to 

 come to maturity, as large timber, or to be orna- 

 mental here, they may be cut gradually out, and 

 trees of any other, or at least of the above kinds, 

 put in ; by this means the whole ground will soon be 

 covered with trees. Observe, as the tops of the 



