86 PLANTATIONS IN GLOSSOP PARISH. 



and of the plantation on Mellor Moor before 

 spoken of, and is about to be executed under 

 the judicious management and agency of Mr. 

 John Taylor, of Highfield, in Ollersett. 



I adduce these cases in support of my re- 

 commendation to large landed proprietors, 

 possessing wide extents of land covered with 

 heather, where the soil is dry and the aspect 

 south, or east with the morning sun upon it, 

 to plant such with larch-fir only, giving them 

 ample room to grow in; about one hundred 

 and fifty larch plants would be amply suffi- 

 cient for a statute acre, and pruned only with 

 the blunt edge of the axe as the lower boughs 

 decay. Before a century has passed away 

 a son or a grandson may reap the benefit 

 from the produce of the trees, and the in- 

 crease of his rental from the site becoming 

 pasture-land afterwards. There are many 

 situations on noble and extensive demesnes 

 which hold out the greatest encouragement 

 to adopt such a mode of making land pro- 



