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species, the oak not excepted ; second, it grows 

 equally as fast, and faster than many of the hard- 

 wood trees ; third, it grows to a larger size than 

 many, and lives to as great an age as any of them, 

 and its timber is as useful and valuable as the oak, 

 and its bark nearly so, and upon the whole, it is a 

 tree, although not generally known in this country, 

 but on the soil we are now treading, it will grow 

 equal, if not superior to any other, and will also grow 

 natural by cutting, as the oak ; keep the ground al- 

 ways full, and thin out for the first time, when the 

 trees arrive at a height of from six to eight feet, to 

 twelve feet, tree from tree, at which they may stand 

 this situation as a finished plantation, keeping a va- 

 riety of all kinds of trees on the ground, to be reared 

 up, and in connexion with that part of the old strip 

 on the north ; always thin the trees to stand in a tri- 

 angular form across the strip. This young planta- 

 tion was almost wholly of larch only about five years 

 planted, which should never be planted in small 

 clumps or strips in an exposed situation. 



No. LXIV. 

 OLD PLANTATION. 



This Plantation is in Argyleshire, and exposed to the 



Western Ocean. 



From the situation this cluster (or clump, as all 

 such are generally termed,) of planting occupies on 

 this farm, it is of the greatest consequence to rear it 

 up as a standing ornamental clump of timber trees to 



