ScpL~\ NEGLECTED PLANTATIONS, &C. 479 



To prevent a misfortune of this kind, a plan- 

 tation which, having been neglected from the 

 time of planting till perhaps its twentieth year, 

 has become clofe and crowded, mould have only 

 the fmalleft and mofl unfightly plants removed, 

 and that with a fparing hand j one perhaps in 

 every fix or eight, in the firfl feafon ; in the fol- 

 lowing feafon, a like number may be removed ; 



and. 



and although it is now six years since the above thinning 

 took place, the remaining trees have not attained their na- 

 tural vigour, and probably never will. The proprietor, no 

 doubt, expected a very different result. 



We shall here subjoin another instance of the impro- 

 priety of suddenly exposing trees, which had been accus- 

 tomed to shelter, to a very free circulation of air. 



About thirty-five years ago, a gentleman who had ac- 

 quired a small fortune by honourable trade, bought an e- 

 state of about a hundred and thirty acres of ground ; on a 

 part of which, next to the mansion-house, there stood a park 

 of mixed trees, of about five or six acres. Many of the 

 trees were two feet in diameter. It was thought advisable 

 to take out the trees in the interior, in order to plough the 

 ground, and to leave two or three rows of the trees, on the 

 skirts all around, to make a sheltered field : this was ac- 

 cordingly done. About eighteen years ago, when j.lant- 

 ing some grounds on the same estate, we found these rows 

 so left with hardly a single tree remaining alive, and some 

 of the poor trees literally without the skin J While, on the 

 opposite side of the house, in the same quality of soil, trees 

 were standing single, growing, and vigorously growing, at 

 60 or 70 feet high : These last, however, had stood single 

 from their infancv. 



