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situation may be ; but to ornament it as a plantation 

 in this place, all along the top, sides, and foot of the 

 hill, should be skirted with standing trees of spruce, 

 Scotch, and silver firs ; say a double row planted and 

 reared up in a triangular form, which would always 

 keep up the view or look of it as a standing planta- 

 tion, and the interior to be cut even, as aforesaid, as 

 coppice, and maiden trees left every cutting amongst 

 the coppice, which will always give the whole the 

 look of a plantation. But to have this always as a 

 wood or forest, it would be well to rear trees of every 

 description on it, and then I would recommend to 

 plant oak, Spanish chesnut, Scotch elm, ash, plane, 

 Scotch, spruce, silver and larch firs alternately. To 

 give variety to its look at a distance, these should be 



planted, thinned, and reared up as described in *s 



Glen, No. XXII. keeping always the ground full of 

 underwood. Should the proprietor prefer this last 

 plan, I would advise that the triangular trees of ever- 

 greens, as formerly recommended, be planted round 

 out sides. I would give a preference to the first 

 plan, as it may be made to answer both the purpose 

 of ornament and profit. 



The present enclosure, already made here, requires 

 planting up, which should be immediately attended 

 to in one or other of the proposed plans ; it is well 

 enclosed, and only needs to be kept full of plants to 

 make it a plantation ; where the heath is very strong, 

 it should be cut down before planting, and where the 

 soil is very bare, plant larch firs, in order to make a 

 soil. See my Forester's Guide on planting waste 

 lands. As I said before, a great deal more land 

 should be planted here, particularly the field imme- 

 diately before this enclosed plantation — it is really 



