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No. LVII. 



Young Plantations. 



This is a very healthy thriving young clump of 

 planting, and from the soil and situation, is remark- 

 ably adapted for planting, and will carry trees of any 

 description to maturity ; as there is a variety of kinds 

 planted, nothing is required but to thin out such as 

 are upon the ground, of every kind alternately, to 

 twelve feet, tree from tree, except along the top of 

 the bank ; wherever there is a choice of trees, take 

 away the larch, saving the hardwoods and firs in 

 equal numbers in the interior of the bank, to give 

 variety to its look, always rearing up hardwood for 

 underwood amongst the large trees. In ten years 

 after, a selection of fine trees may be made, to be 

 thinned out to twenty-four feet, as large ornamental 

 trees, and those to be taken out will then be of con- 

 siderable value, keeping always the ground full of 

 underwood, to be cut over every twenty years, for 

 profit, as a coppice wood. 



The bank of older trees to the west of this, may 

 be thinned out in the mean time to the same distances, 

 and in the verv same manner dealt with on the bank. 

 The haugh below the bank, on the west end, the 

 standing trees, such as are to be reared up for orna- 

 ment, may be singled out just now, to twenty-four 

 feet ; a few of the best ash, with which it abounds, 

 may be spared in the mean time till their timber come 

 to be of use, or as long as they are not injuring the 

 standing trees, the other to be cut for underwood. 



In the sliding bank betwixt the two places, put in 



