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compliance with fuch a claufe. If once, or twice, upon an eftaie, 

 a man was drove for his rent, who neglected the trees, while 

 another jn the fame circumftances had time given him, becaufe 

 he preferved them, the effect would prefently be feen. 'flwd % 

 To have a magazine of flicks, fpade handles, pieces for cars, 

 and cabbins, &c. laid in at the cheapeft rate, and kept for fell- 

 ing at prime coft to whoever would buy them. Thefe would 

 want to be purchafed but for a few years, as fmall plantations 

 of the timber willow would in four years furnifli an ample 

 furjply. 



That thefe three circumftances united, would prefently plant 

 a country I am convinced } I law a willingnefs among Lord 

 Kinglborough's little tenants do it, feme even who made 

 a beginning the very firft year ; and hundreds allured me of 

 their moft afiiduous compliance. Such a plan moft certainly 

 fliould not preclude large annual plantations on the land which 

 a gentleman keeps in hand ; but the beauty of the country de- 

 pends on trees, fcattered over the whole face of it. What a 

 figure would Ireland make on a comparifon with its prefent 

 ftate, if one tree now flood by each cabbin ! but it is the fpi- 

 rit of thelrifli nation to attempt every thing by laws, and then 

 leave thofe laws to execute themfelves, which indeed with ma- 

 ny of them is not at all amifs. It is by no means clear, whe- 

 ther the aft which gives to the tenant a property in the trees 

 he plants, to be afcertained by a jury at the end of the leafe, 

 and paid by the landlord, has any great tendency to encreafe 

 the quantity of wood. It has unfortunately raifed an undecid- 

 ed queftion f law, whether the aft goes to trees, which were 

 originally furnimed from the landlord's nurfery, or planted in 

 confequence of a claufe in a leafe. If it fhould fo interfere 

 with fuch plantations, it would be highly mifchievous : Alfo, 

 for a man to be forced either to buy or to fell bis property, 

 at the price fixed by a jury, is a harm circumftance. To this 

 caufe it is probably owing, that the plantations made in 

 confequence of that at, are perfectly insignificant. 



I have made many very minute calculations of the ex- 

 pence, growth, and value of plantations in Ireland, and am 

 convinced from them that there is no application of the 

 beft land in that kingdom will equal the profit of planting the 

 worft in it. A regard for the intereftof pofterity call for the 

 oak and other trees which require more than an age to come 

 to maturity, but with other views the quick growing ones 

 are of profit much fuperior j thefe come to perfeclion fo 

 fpeedily that three-fourths of the landlords of the king- 

 dom might expeft to cut where they planted, and reap 

 thofe great profits, which moft certainly attend it. There 

 are timber willows (fallies as they are called in Ireland) 

 which rife with incredible rapidity. I have meafured them 

 at Mr. Bolton's near Waterford twenty-one feet high in the 

 third year from the planting, and as ftrait as a larch. With 

 this willow, woods would arife as it were by enchantment, and 



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