MIXED HARD-WOOD PLANTATIONS. 159 



landscape, until such time as the young trees had 

 attained a considerable size. 



AVhat I have said above, relative to the rearing 

 up of hard-wood plantations, is only applicable to 

 such when grown for the sake of their timber ; but 

 upon proprietors' estates, hard-wood plantations 

 are more generally raised with the view of being 

 ornamental upon the lawns and home parks, than 

 simply for the sake of the value of their timber. 



Every proprietor who lays out new grounds in 

 the neighbourhood of his mansion-house, if no plan- 

 tations exist upon those grounds at the time, will, 

 in accordance with good taste, and with the view of 

 affording shelter, plant extensively upon them. And 

 every proprietor of sound natural taste will, in a case 

 of this nature, plant the chfferent sorts of hard-wood, 

 with the view of their becoming ultimately liis per- 

 manent standing trees, and make up with firs, simply 

 with the view of acting as nurses, until such time as 

 the hard-wood sorts may arrive at a size sufficient 

 to insure their welfare, independent of the firs ; and 

 not plant firs in a body by themselves, in any plan- 

 tation near the mansion, or in the grounds imme- 

 diately in view, for these always give a place a 

 mean and highland appearance. 



I am aware that many proprietors in Scotland, 

 whose seats are upon high-lying and rather moor- 

 land districts in the country, are of the opinion 

 that hard-wood trees will not grow with them to 



