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larch, and in all probability the oak, might 

 with due care be reared in the more genial 

 afpects. 



Much would depend upon management.- 

 In Keldale and on Kempfwidden, the pine- 

 tribe and oaki'-i:s were dibbled in among the 

 ftanding heath. i\o wonder they mifcarried. 

 The ground fhould be rrenched with the 

 fpade ; or be prepared with the plow ; and the 

 plants be put in with the nurferyman's beft 

 care. Not fingly or widely fcattered : but 

 in numbers and in clofe order. 



There is a natural warmth in vegetable as 

 in animal life. One tree is raifed with diffi- 

 culty in any fituation which is inclined to 

 bleaknefs ; but plant a number in clofe or- 

 der, and the difficulty is overcome. They 

 not only create among themfelves, by their 

 natural warmth and perfpiration, a frefh at- 

 mofphere ; but affift each other in withftand- 

 ing the attacks of the winds and other ene- 

 mies. 



HERBAGE. If tkefe Mils be improveable by 

 hufeandry, the principle of improvement ap- 

 pears to me to be that of removing the heath, 



and 



