lit KINIJS OF TREES, , 



and the trees thus allowed to increafe their dia- 

 meters over them ; fo that, when they are felled, 

 the timber is condemned as worthlefs. A con- 

 trary, and more rational, fyftem of management 

 would evidently place this ufeful plant in a more 

 favourable ftation, than prejudice will at prefent 

 allow it. If once the red wood variety were fairly 

 difcovered, and generally cultivated, the Scots fir 

 would rank amongft our moft valuable timber 

 trees. We have feen this variety at Cariftoim 

 and Brechin-Caftle, and other places in the north. 

 It may be proper to notice, that pitch is extract- 

 ed in great abundance from the Scots fir. 



THE WEYMOUTH PINE. (Pinus Strobus.) 



This is an elegant tree ; and it grows to a very 

 great fize. It is admiflible in all ornamental plan- 

 tations, either in groups, or on their borders. 

 In flickered fituations, it becomes a fine looking 

 fmgle tree. In the grove, however, it is fure to 

 become moft valuable ; and it mould, like all o- 

 ther pines and firs, in this point of view, be plant- 

 ed by itfelf, not in mixture with any other fort of 

 wood. 



In America, this is, perhaps, the moft valuable 

 of the pine or fir kinds. It grows to a very great 

 length and iize in New England, and other pro- 

 vinces ; from whence vaft quantities (with the 

 fpruce) is imported ; and now more than ever, 



perhaps, 



