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kinds of fir. The oak has been found to do well and thrive on soils of 

 very opposite qualities, but those of a deep, dry, firm nature, are best 

 adapted to it, provided they are sheltered. The ash succeeds in nearly all 

 dry soils, even if the situations are much exposed. The ,elm prefers a 

 damp, mellow soil; the beech, elevated gravelly soils, with a loamy sub- 

 soil. And in all soils and situations, the larch will thrive and do well, 

 where the fir cannot be raised at all. The latter is proverbially known to 

 succeed the best in the most elevated and poorest places. 



In the following table will be found a view of the nature of the soil in 

 which different varieties of timber-trees are found to succeed in the most 

 certain manner, with the uses to which they may be converted, commercially 

 speaking : 



