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we are now treading so close to the mansion, the un- 

 derwood should consist chiefly of evergreens, say 

 laurels, small spruce firs, and such like. Observe the 

 trees in this plantation were only about twenty years 

 old, and stood at distances of six feet only, tree from 

 tree, when the survey was made and the report 

 given. 



No. LX. 

 General Remarks on the Plantations, from No. LV. 



I have all along, as I said at the beginning, consi- 

 dered the whole of the plantations, in so far as it is 

 attainable from the present crops on the ground, to 

 be reared up as standing plantations, as inseparably 

 attached to the lands, in which respect they add 

 (and while kept on it, will ever do so) to the value, 

 at least four times more than their intrinsic value as 

 timber ; and it is of the very greatest importance 

 carefully to propagate them as such. 



I. — It is agreed at all hands, that to have large 

 ornamental trees, they must have room to spread 

 out, and wherever a thinning out for this purpose is 

 suggested, no time should be lost in having it finish- 

 ed. 



II. — One chief beauty of a tree is, its being well 

 clothed with branches, and it is wonderful to observe 

 what nature does for trees in this respect, if they 

 have equal room, the equality of their branches is 

 truly surprising in healthy trees, even granting that 

 one side, which is generally the case, unless in large 

 plantations, be exposed to the storm, particularly the 



