THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. 93 



be filled up with larches, the difference of effect 

 will foon become perceptible, and the whole will 

 be ftrikingly altered for the better. 



The dation of the Larch may therefore be faid 

 to be every where. It certainly, however, is 

 mod properly placed in the foreft, and in the 

 grove. No tree is fo eminently qualified as the 

 Larch, for the office of a nurfe : In mod fituations, 

 even in very expofed places, and thin foils, it out- 

 grows all other timber trees, for the firft ten or 

 twenty years after planting ; and if planted in 

 fufficient numbers, in proportion to the principal 

 trees to be nurfed, it affords them good fhelter ; 

 while by its towering, it tends to draw them up 

 for timber. * It will arrive at a timber fize in al- 

 moft any fituation or foil, (as already noticed), 

 and, of courfe, it may with propriety be planted 

 on the mod broad and extended fcale. Certainly, 

 had the vaft fored tracts, which have lately been 

 planted with Scots Firs, in many parts of thi> 

 country, been planted with Larches, at lead in 



thofe 



* Objections have been made to the Larch as a rmrse, 

 from the circumstance of its leaning over upon the principal 

 trees, in very exposed or windy situations. It is generally 

 in consequence of being planted too sparingly, that it does 

 so ; or it happens chiefly where the plantation is a mere 

 stripe, or a patch. At any rate, by the time that nurse 

 plants arrive at such a height as to be capable of bending 

 over upon the principals, they should be removed. 



