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THE MOST USEFUL SORTS OF TIMBER 

 CHARACTERIZED. 



O I N C E the modern fafhion of orna* 

 ^^ meriting country-feats, and villa's, 

 has prevailed, almoil every gentleman's 

 attention has been taken up in that mode 

 of planting ; and many of them are apt 

 to confider themfelves as great planters, 

 merely becaufe their habitations are fur- 

 rounded with a thick margin ; hz]f the 

 trees of which will never be of any 

 national ufe. I do not however mean 

 to infmuate, that this method of planting 

 has no merit, but that it is not the ftyle 

 of planting which this country requires ; 

 and that, while gentlemen attend to the 

 embelliihment of a few acres, they fre- 

 quently neglect larger objeds, upon fuch 

 parts of their eflate as lie farther from 



home. 



