^3^ WOODLANDS. n. 



are nearly extinguiflied, have, it is highly 

 probable, got up fortuHouJly from feedling. 

 plants, rifing in mgle^ed roughets : a fpecies 

 of propagation which is flill obfervable in 

 amoll every woody wafte -, and is in truth 

 Nature's only method of propagating 



TIMBER OAKS, 



An OAK which fprings from feed in an open 

 plai'/i, throws out horizontal branches on 

 every iid.-% and being browzed upon by 

 cattle takes ?ijhrub-like form. But oaklings 

 rifing in a thicket are fccure from the bite of 

 cattle, and arc taugl » by felf-prefcrvation tq 

 Ihoot upward with a fingle Jiem ; the fooner 

 to gam the afcendency of the Ihrubs which 

 furround them. 



This early habii of {hooting upward, per- 

 haps, afterward promotes an upward ten- 

 dency. It is alfo probable that plants whofc 

 conjiituiions arc naturally weak, are unable to 

 cope with the difficulties v/hich furround 

 them ; corifequently that thofe which ftruggle 

 through hardfhips fp evidently great are of an 

 afpiring robuft nature. Be this as it may, it is 

 obfervable that oaklings which rife naturally 

 in thickets generally make tall vigorous 



trees. 



But 



