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support the tops, nor will they ever require replant- 

 ing. Spanish chesnut, elm, ash, and plane will do 

 equally well with the oak ; by this method, plant in 

 larch and other fir seedlings betwixt them, not older 

 than two year seedlings. 



To prevent strangers from making the planting in 

 the water and marshes proverbial, the plants should 

 be instantly removed and the places drained j in 

 any very conspicuous place, a pollard tree could 

 be transplanted in. The few trees to be taken 

 out from amongst the old ones, were almost to a 



tree, fixed on in presence of Mr. , who I have 



reason to trust, will see to them ; they must of 

 course be few and far between. Any tree, so 

 far decayed, that the bark and timber will be 

 worth nothing to sell or cut, it would be much bet- 

 ter to cut as a pollard, (see No. IV.) as it may in 

 that case become ornamental, while its intrinsic value 

 is now almost nothing. As to making a plantation 



of timber-trees by pollards, &c, the present 



, Lanarkshire, built a new mansion in a field 



where there was not a tree ; he in two seasons trans- 

 planted 500 trees, many with their tops whole, 50 

 feet high, and not 20 of them misgiving, made a com- 

 plete lawn of large timber- trees in two years ; many 

 noblemen went to see, and were admirably delight- 

 ed with the heaven-like grove, which was formerly 

 barren waste land, — as inferior to that on which I am 

 now treading, as sand is to fine flower. In Lord 

 Morton's deer park 500 pollards have been put in 

 within these five years, and not 50 out of the 500 

 have misgiven, and only enclosed for a few years. 

 Young healthy trees, from 10 to 29 feet of wood, 



