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WOODS and PLANTATIONS. 



NORTH AMPTON-SHIRE. 



In diis county there are very exteniive 

 Woods, and forefts, though, as has been 

 obfersed, they are not under the beft 

 modes of management, nor by any means 

 fo profitable as they would be, if they 

 were converted into private property. 



There are no young plantations, or any 

 means ufed, (but in particular cafes), to 

 preferve a proper fucceflion of yoiuig 

 trees. 



PERTH-SHIRE. 



This county cannot noiv boaft of forefls 

 or woodlands. Though from the great 

 number of large oak and fir trees which 

 are found in all the moOes and fvvamps 

 in the higher parts of the country, it is 

 perfedlly certain, that at fome remote pe- 

 riod, a great part of the diftrift has been 

 covered with trees ; the only veftiges of 

 which that now remain, are feveral exten- 

 five trafts of copfe-wood oak, along the 

 fides of the difF-rent rivers and lakes, 

 which are generally cut every 25 years. 



The prefent landholders, however, 

 feem extremely anxious to make up for 

 the deficiency of their predeceflors in 

 this refpe£l. And many thoufand acres 

 (not fufceptible of cultivation), are now 

 covered with ufeful and omaniental plan- 

 tations. As one inftance of which, may 

 it be proper to obferve, that the Right 

 Honoiurable Lord Kinnaird, a few years 

 ago, paid L. 800 for planting 200 Scotch 

 acres. The plants confilled of oak, a(h, 

 beech, elm, plane, fpruce, and Scotch fir, 

 and to the number of 3000 to the acre. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



If more attention is not paid to the woodlands in Northamptonfhire, it 

 is impoflible that any fucceflion of trees can be preferved, and the forefts 

 muft in time fall into decay. The ancient forefts in Perthfhire, though 

 they ftill retain the name, are now deftitute of trees. And indeed there 

 are few old trees to be feen in the county, except the ornamental planta- 

 tions around the caftles, and houfes, of the proprietors. 



If, however, no pains is taken to preferve a fucceflion of trees in Nor- 

 thamptonfliire ; and if the fpirit for planting, which has become fo gene- 

 ral among the Perthfliire proprietors of late years, ftiould continue, rhe 



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