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respectable and respected, educate their families 

 and die wealthy ; but more of this anon. 



Manuring and Keeping in a Productive State 



such Lands, 



I must lay the foundation of manuring and keep- 

 ing in a productive state such lands, by explaining 

 my four propositions, as laid down in planting a third 

 part of such lands with larch firs. The reader will 

 recollect these w r ere first to absorb by suction and eva- 

 porate the moisture or water. It is a well known fact 

 in forestry, or by those who are acquainted and ac- 

 customed to the rearing of trees, that the more sap 

 or moisture, soft wood trees have, if not flooded over 

 with water, the faster they grow. It is also a well 

 authenticated fact, that if the subsoil is good and the 

 roots nearly dry, however wet below, the spruce, 

 the silver, the Scotch and larch firs will grow, thrive, 

 and come to maturity, and of the hardwood tribe, 

 all kinds of willow, and poplar, and even the ash 

 and oak in very moist and wet places will come 

 to maturitv. But I aver, without the least fear of 

 contradiction, that an acre of larch or spruce firs 

 planted at 3 feet plant from plant (or say they may 

 be put in at 2 feet in extremely wet places,) will 

 drain by absorbing the moisture, the very wetest land 

 where the soil is good, where the surface can be 

 dried according to our plan to plant them, and where 

 there is no run of water from hill or high lands 

 around altogether to inundate and cover the whole 

 surface. The water will be gradually subsiding as 

 the plantation of trees increase in size, and when the 



