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ductive where the surface is covered with 

 heather only ; and though the returns may 

 be far distant they are not less certain, if 

 protected with a good dry stone-wall fence, 

 and, in many cases, there are sufficient 

 fences of such kind already existing, and the 

 cost of plants of one year, well-rooted, would 

 be moderate, if the order given to a Scotch 

 nurseryman was a considerable one. So like- 

 wise are there many sites where my simple 

 and economical plan of dibbling acorns and 

 Spanish chestnuts on estates, which shows 

 the feasibility and policy of such a practice in 

 such examples as Arnicroft "Wood, in Glossop 

 Dale, at the westerly extremity, and lordly 

 Shire Hill, as you approach the easterly range 

 of it. 



