SECT. X. OF FOREST TREES. 2lS 



very refpeSfabk manner by fo doing;. Let the work be 

 fet about with all fpeed and refolution ; {ox every year 

 loft to planting is to be lamented, both in a public and 

 private view. 



What if forejl trees produce nothing for the table, 

 or no immediate profit, they afford, in their raifing, 

 planting, and nurfing, prefent entertainment of a very 

 grateful kind : they may ever after be viewed as objeftf 

 of fatisfa&ion, m&pofterity will have reafon to praife 

 the work, and the planter. 



Plantations of foreft trees do very much ornament a 

 country, and there are fome grounds peculiarly fituated 

 to become obje&s of delight in this refpeft, which 

 could not be better employed. A place without trees 

 being deftitute of one of the molt ufeful materials for 

 buildings, utenfils, &c. is in tnjth to^be lamented as 

 unfurnifhed and forlorn. The demand for wsod is 

 perpetual, and the confumption is great : and therefore 

 a provifion for generations to come, by planting of 

 forefl trees, mull afford the fincereft (becaufe mod difin- 

 terefted) gratifications of pleafure to the mind. 



Though every one has not ground to form plantations 

 of any confiderable extent, yet if it were only a fingle 

 tree here and there, i. e. to do what little might be 

 in this way, it would fhew a worthy fpirit, and make 

 a man an honourable benefaftor to fociety. Corners of 

 fields might have little clumps conveniently planted, 

 without much expence of fencing. A few trees might 

 be planted in, or rather juft without, hedge rows ; but 

 thefe (hould be chiefly oaks. It is a practice with fome, 

 to plant trees in hedges when firft made ; but they are 

 commonly too fm&Jl, and fo the quick choaks them, 

 and they never thrivfe. 



But the planting 6$ forejl trees is profitahle as welt 

 as pleafing and refpe£t&ble; and a young planter may 

 live to reap much reward from his labour*. or he may- 

 leave a valuable inheritance to his children,. " The 



plantation 



