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95. larches, or, where there is any head-room, arc 



PLANTING. drawn up much too tall and flender. 



The fame may be faid of the beeches ; and it 

 is curious, though painful, to fee how they 

 ftruggle for the light, wherever they can fee a 

 peep-hole. 



The a/bes, too, where they ftand among the 

 firs and larches, are either fmothered outright, 

 or are drawn up much too tall and flender. In 

 a part where they ftand alone, without any ad- 

 mixture except a few alders, there are fome 

 moft beautiful plants. 



The cbefnufs, if one may judge from this inr 

 {lance, is totally unfit for a mifcellaneous 

 grove. There is fcarcely one of this fpecies 

 enjoys the fmallefl portion of fun-fhine : the 

 few which flill exift are chiefly underlings; 

 and fome of them not much larger than when 

 they were planted. 



It muft be obfervcd, however, that much 

 may depend on the foil. This plantation di- 

 vides a rank moory meadow from a good, 

 {bund, upland foil ; fome parts of it partaking 

 of the former, fome of the latter quality, i 



The larches and the chefnuts, obvioufly, do 

 beft on the dry foil. The Scotch firs, too, 

 feerri to have gone off upon the moory foil ; 



there 



