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The want of judgment and taste in planting 

 these trees, in little courts and gardens before 

 the fronts of houses, where there is scarce 

 room for a lilac or cherry-tree to thrive, is too 

 conspicuous in most parts of the country, and 

 is scarcely less ridiculous than a pair of jack- 

 boots would appear at a dress-ball. 



The Weymouth pine grows best upon a 

 moist light soil, not too wet: it will also thrive 

 on a loamy soil, if it does not approach too 

 near to clay. When planted in a soft, hazel 

 loam, it often makes shoots of thirty inches 

 in one year ; but it is not so well adapted to 

 exposed situations, as the Scotch fir or the 

 larch, and the seeds require to be sown with 

 a little more care than those of the latter 

 trees, that is, by giving them more sheltered 

 spots, or by shading the young plants with 

 mats from the sun, but which should be re- 

 moved so as to admit the dews of the night. 



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