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leturn in Wood, like that in crops, would become uniloniily 

 productive. Trees would be judiciously adapted to their ap- 

 propriate soils, and, what is little less important, to their ap- 

 propriate climates. The efforts of nature would everywhere 

 be seconded, instead of being repressed or counteracted. An 

 efficient management would supersede a fortuitous practice ; 

 and, in a word, science would be able to anticipate the re- 

 sult, which industry, without her assistance, could never 

 bring about. 



