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FORMING PLANTATIONS. 



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3918. A natural succession in the kind of tree has been found to take place where 

 natural forests have been destroyed. Evelyn noticed that, at Wooton, where goodly 

 caks grew and were cut down by his grandfather 100 years before, beech succeeded, 

 and that, when his brother had extirpated the beech, birch rose up. (Gard. Mag. vol. ill. 

 p. 351.) In Dwight's Travels in Neiv England, a number of instances are given, in 

 some of which the pine and fir tribe were succeeded by deciduous trees, and in others 

 the reverse. Soulange-Bodin also, and some other French and German writers, have 

 « bserved the same thing to take place on the continent of Europe, and use the fact as an 

 argument for the introduction of exotic trees to succeed the natives. 



3919. A table of soils and the trees suitable to them, which may be of some use, is given 

 in The Agricultural Survey of Kent. It indicates the trees which grow naturally en a 

 variety of soils and subsoils ; and, next, the sorts which yield most profit on such soils. 



