NOTES. 85 



if the fact were ascertained, that yews would grow in such exposed situations, 

 for under their shelter, other trees might be raised. 



585 Wilts Report, p. 98. 



586 Cornwall Report p. 49. 



587 Walker's Hebrides, p. 1 96, &c. 



588 Holt's Lancashire, p. 84 and 85. 



589 This tree is the best substitute for the oak, aud grows remarkably quick 

 in loamy and clay soils : for ship- building, it is inferior to the oak, but for most 

 uses, it is equal to that tree, and in buildings and out-door work, it is much su- 

 perior. If it gets old, the timber is apt to get brittle. It should therefore be 

 cut, when the tree is in a growing and healthy state Kent's Norfolk, p. 94 and 

 222. 



590 Mr Saville of Bocking, in Essex, planted five acres of moory land, four- 

 teen years ago, with ash, and they have thriven so greatly, as to promise to be the 

 most profitable crop on his whole farm. Young's Essex, vol. ii. p. 148. 



591 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 205. 



592 Wilts Report, vol. ii. It is said, that an acre of very bad soil, sterile red 

 clay, and peat, in the space of 23 years produced ash trees, to the value of 

 L.I 15, I Os. being upwards of L.5 per acre per annum. South Wales Report, 

 vol. ii. p. 58. 



593 Wilts Report, p. 90. 



594 General Report of Scotland, p. 90, 208. 



595 Dr Rigby's Report of Holkham, p. 27. The black Italian poplar, when 

 judiciously planted as a screen round barns, and farm-buildings, is said to be 

 the most profitable for planting, of all the poplars. 



596 This is attended to in the Netherlands. See also Derbyshire Report, 

 vol. ii. p. 259. 



597 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 277. 



598 Somerset Report, p. 127. 



599 Gallowuy Report, p. 182. On inclosing some commons near Poole, in 

 Dorsetshire, about the year 1805, several hundred acres of miserable land, co- 

 vered with stunted heath, were sold freehold at five guineas per acre ; and con- 

 tracted to be inclosed and planted with 2500 forest trees, as well as supply the 

 places of dead plants with living ones, and protect the whole for seven years, for 

 other five guineas per acre. Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



600 Communication from Sir Charles M. Burrell, Bart. 



601 Too great a partiality for trees, often occasions an error, which defeats 

 the object of the planter and improver. It is as necessary to thin trees judi- 

 ciously, as to plant them with care and judgment ; and yet it too often happens, 

 that those who are extremely fond of planting, cannot reconcile it to their taste 

 or judgment, to cut away trees that absolutely injure their plantations, and ulti- 

 mately defeat their progressive improvement. Surely no person can dispute, 

 that a grove, or plantation, consisting of trees well furnished with branches and 

 rich foliage, is not a more pleasing and beautiful object, than a plantation in- 

 terspersed with half dead and naked stems. Nor is it to be supposed, that trees 

 crowded together, robbing each other of support, and of the invigorating powers 

 of the sun and air, can arrive at a profitable growth. It is more absurd to re- 

 frain from cutting away young trees when necessary, than it is reprehensible, 

 not to plant when it may be done with advantage. Communication from Ed- 

 ward Burroughs, Esq 



602 Neill's Horticultural Tour, p. 520. 



603 A respectable Scotch Judge, (the late Lord Polkemmet), grafted the 

 English on the Scotch elm, and the service-tree on the mountain ash, and found 

 them to answer. West Lothian Report, p. 244. Grafting foreign on English 

 oak, has likewise been successfully tried in England. Marshall on Planting, 

 vol. i. p. 311. 



604 Somerset Report, p. 232. Ten shillings annually for thirty year*, would 

 amount to L.33. 



605 Galloway Report, p. 182. 



606 Clydesdale Report. 



