THE 



PLANTER'S KALENDAR. 



INTRODUCTION. 



JT ERHAPS at no period of the hiftory of this 

 country has a fpirit fof planting more prevailed 

 among private individuals, than within thefe lafl 

 thirty years. Surely at no period of our hiftory 

 was ever fuch a fpirit more defirable ; whether we 

 confider the decreafe of trees in our national fo- 

 refts, the high price of timber in all parts of the 

 country, or the difficulty of obtaining foreign 

 fupplies of that article. The extenfive fcale on 

 which plantations in this country, particularly in 

 Scotland, have lately been conducted, certainly 

 reflects very high honour on the landholders of 

 the prefent age. It is not now, therefore, fo ne- 

 ceflfary for us to call loudly on the proprietors of 

 land, efpecially in the northern part of the king- 

 dom, to plant, (as has uniformly been done by 



A late 



