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situation, as I have been informed it proves 

 to be by some of tbe most eminent calico- 

 printers of my own time, — does it not seem 

 a waste of plants to cramp such a tree in 

 his infancy, youth, and manhood — in his 

 progress — with a Scotch and spruce fir, 

 birch, or wych-elm fraternity? And is it 

 not better to let him trust to himself, giving 

 him room to move in and to breathe in, 

 and to take care of himself — as the ash 

 will never fail to do on a northerly, or the 

 sycamore on an easterly or westerly aspect,--^ 

 and let him be the nurse and not the nurs- 

 ling, and allow him a few evergreen com- 

 panions to bear him company, and to cheer 

 the eye of the owner in a long and dreary 

 Derbyshire winter, and oftentimes still more 

 dreary spring ? 



