its SH'urBS AND TRLES. 



and coppice?, ornamental tree plantations, 

 ihrubbenes, hedges, &c. &c. each is ex- 

 plained in its proper place, in the order fol- 

 lowing : 



Forcfl-trce plantations conild of the hrgeft 

 and lofiieft-growing hardy- tree kinds, com- 

 monly denominated foreft or timber trees, and 

 as fuch are generally difpofed in extenfive 

 out-premifes, to form woods, coppices, hedge- 

 jows, &c. and are both of the greateft utility 

 to cultivate for timber and underwood, for 

 confiderably encreafing the value and income 

 of eltates, and gives alfo an air of much im- 

 portance and grandeur to tlie premifes, as 

 well as appear highly ornamental at all times 

 of the year; and, in particular fituations, 

 they afford great fhelt^r to the interior grounds 

 and more tender plantations of curious trees 

 and fhrubs; and which plantations of foreft 

 trees may be varioufly difpofed in low and high 

 fituations, the leaft calculated for the cultiva- 

 tion of corn, grafs, and other herbaceous ve- 

 getables, as in low marfhy grounds there are 

 aquatic trees well adapted to fuch foils, fuch 

 as willow, alder, poplar, birch, Szc, and for 

 liigher premifes, allot a(h, oak, elm, maple, 

 beech, horn-beam, chefnut, walnut, pines, 

 firs, birches, cedar, holly, Szc. 



In making plantations of foreft trees, they 

 jnay be planted fome in clofe plantations, 

 placing the trees only five or fix feet diftancc, 

 to allow for thinning them by degrees, after 



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