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planted 200,000, about four years old plants. 

 In the same county, Mr. George Wright 

 planted at Gildingwells 11,573. Thomas 

 White, Esq., of West Retford, in Notting- 

 hamshire, planted 13,000 about the year 1789. 

 The late Earl of Fife planted 181,813 in the 

 county of Moray, in Scotland. In 1791, the 

 Rev. T. Dunham Whitaker, at Holme, in 

 Claviger, in the county of Lancaster, planted 

 64,135 ; and in the same year Thomas Gait- 

 skell, Esq., of Little Braithwait, in Cumber- 

 land, planted 43,300, on fifteen acres of high 

 land. The same spirit for planting the larch 

 has continued down to the present time, and 

 extended to all parts of the country where the 

 land has not been thought more valuable for 

 other purposes. In 1820, the London Society 

 for promoting Arts, &c, presented the gold 

 medal to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 

 for planting 1,981,065 forest trees, 980, 128, of 

 which were larch. 



The l^rch-tree is now found to ripen, its 

 seed; perfectly in England. The cones should 

 be gathered about the end of Novenaber, and 

 kept in a dry place till the spring ; when, if 

 spread on a cloth, and exposed to the sun, 

 or laid before the fire, the scales will open 

 and emit their seeds. These seeds should be 

 sown on a border exposed to the east, where 



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