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that might redound to the good of their successors, grew 

 very peevish. We are always doing, says he, something for 

 posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for 

 us."* Mr. Weston also published The Universal Botanist 

 and Nursery; 1770, 1774, 4 vols. 8vo. The Gardener and 

 Planter's Calendar, containing the Method of Raising Tim- 

 ber Trees, Fruit Trees, and Quicks for Hedges; with Di- 

 rections for Forming and Managing a Garden every Month 

 in the Year; also many New Improvements in the Art of 

 Gardening; 8vo. 1773. Mr. Weston then appears to have 

 lived at Kensington Gore. The Gentleman's Magazine for 

 November, 1806, says, that he died at Leicester, in 1808, 

 aged seventy-four. He was formerly a thread hosier there. 

 It gives an amusing and full list of his various publications, 



* Lamoignon de Malherbes (that excellent man) had naturalized a vast 

 number of foreign trees, and at the age of eighty-four, saw every where, in 

 France, (as Duleuze observes) plants of his own introduction. 



The old Earl of Twsedale, in the reign of Charles II. and his immediate 

 successor, planted more than six thousand acres, in Scotland, with fir trees. 

 In a Tour through Scotland, in 1753, it mentions, that "The county of 

 Aberdeen is noted for its timber, having in it upwards of five millions of fir 

 trees, besides vast numbers of other kinds, planted within these seventy 

 years, by the gentry at and about their seats." 



Mr. Marshall, in his " Planting and Rural Ornament," states, that " In 

 1792, his Grace the Duke of Athol (we speak from the highest authority) 

 was possessed of a thousand larch trees, then growing on his estates of 

 Dunkeld and Blair only, of not less than two to four tons of timber each ; 

 and had, at that time, a million larches, of different sizes, rising rapidly on 

 his estate." 



The zeal for planting in Scotland, of late years, has been stimulated by 

 the writings of James Anderson, and Lord Kames. 



It is pleasing to transcribe the following paragraph from a newspaper of 

 the year 1819 : " Sir Watkin Williams Wynn has planted, within the last five 

 years, on the mountainous lands in the vicinity of Llangollen, situated from 

 1200 to 1400 feet above the level of the sea, 80,000 oaks, 63,000 Spanish 

 chesnuts, 1 02,000 spruce firs, 110,000 Scotch firs, 90,000 larches, 30,000 

 wych elms, 35,000 mountain elms, 80,000 ash, and 40,000 sycamores, all 



