FOREST TRESS. 



THE LABURNUM (the tree sort.) 



This is alfo a hardy tree, a native of Switzer- 

 land and Savoy, and grows freely in expofed places, 

 where, perhaps, the foil is but indifferent. It be- 

 comes moft valuable in light loams, or fandy foils. 

 It will grow moft rapidly in deep, fubhumid, or 

 Joamy earth ; but in fuch, if much expofed to the 

 wind, it is very apt to lean over to one fide, out- 

 growing, as it were, its own ftrength. 



THE HORNBEAM. 



The Hornbeam is a hardy foreft tree, and is to 

 be found thriving in many bleak fituations, and 

 in a variety of foils, both where it has grown na- 

 turally, and where it has been planted. In better 

 fituations, and in loamy foils (as at Alva, Stirling- 

 fhire, and at Keith-hall, Aberdeenmire), it becomes 

 a very large tree. It has, however, been rather 

 negleded as a foreft tree. * 



THE 



* One special reason why the Hornbeam has been less 

 planted in forests, than it naturally deserved to be, is, that 

 the English nurserymen long ago raised great numbers of 

 them from layers, purposely for hedges, which answered 

 that design very well. But plants of this kind raised from 

 layers, never arrive at great stature as timber trees ; and 



