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ence. That of planting is now widely extended; 

 and improvements in all its branches are intro- 

 duced. We, therefore, having a better know- 

 ledge of foils, perhaps, than our forefathers had, 

 can, with greater certainty, affign to each tree its 

 proper ftation. We can, perhaps, at fight, decide, 

 that here the Oak will grow to perfection, there 

 the Am, and here again the Beech ; and the 

 fame with refpect to the others. 



If, however, there happen to be a piece of land 

 of fuch a quality, that it may be faid to be equal- 

 ly adapted for the Oak, the Walnut, or the Spa- 

 nifh Chefnut, it will be proper to place fuch in 

 it, in a mixed way, as the principals 5 becaufe 

 each fort will extract its own proper nourifhment, 

 and will have an enlarged range of pafturage for 

 its roots, and confequently may make better tim- 

 ber trees. 



Although, by indifcriminately mixing different 

 kinds of hard-wood plants in a plantation, there 

 is hardly a doubt but that the ground will be fully 

 cropped with one kind or other ; yet it very often 

 happens, in cafes where the foil is evidently well 

 adapted to the mod valuable forts, as the Oak 

 perhaps, that there is hardly one oak in the ground 

 for a hundred that ought to have been planted. 

 We have known this imperfection in feveral in- 

 ftances feverely felt. It not unfrequently happens, 

 too, that, even what oaks, or other hard-wood 



trees, 



