158 ON AMERICAN 



and fituation the wood grew in, for the foil 

 alters the wood very much. 



IF the wood is good and nt for any par- 

 ticular ufe, then it would be worth the 

 while to plant the foreign and fome Eng- 

 li(h trees of or as near the fame fort $s 

 poffiWe, in the fame foil and fituation, in 

 clumps, the trees planted alternately ; this 

 would he a fair trial as to growth : then 

 it would be right to confider whether this 

 foreign wood is better than the Englifti 

 that grows on the fame foil ; if it is, and 

 grows farter, it is a great acquifition, and 

 fit to plant for profit. 



SOME years iince I raifed from feed the 

 American and the common Spruce Fir ; the 

 American grew taller the three years they 

 were in the nurfery, but not fo ftrong as 

 the cornmpn : they were then planted 

 into little clumps in a rich light loam* 

 The firft year neither of them made much 

 progrefs, although they were taken up 

 with good balls of earth, and were not a 

 quarter of an hour out of the ground. 



