5 2 ON PLANTING 



grounds, without any regard to timber^ 

 th6 fmall-planted trees will in time make 

 the fineft woods, and in lefs time than 

 thofe that are planted large. 



THE third plantation, planted with 

 Oaks only, of three years old, eighteen 

 inches high, and had never been removed 

 from the feed-bed, grew extraordinaay 

 well, and was the fineft of all the three. 

 There was no further trouble with it.- 



THE heath decays as the tree advances 

 in height ; and as they grow thick, the 

 under-branches decay, and they have in 

 general fine ftraight ilems. 



THERE was on the fame hill I.pla'nted 

 on a plantation of Scotch Firs, which had 

 been planted fixty years. At the time the 

 Firs were planted, fuch high grounds 

 were thought to be fit for no other kind 

 of wood. They were fine trees and many 

 of them were cut for ufe : the wood 



was 



