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cannot be brought under the management recommended in the 

 first head, and at the same time are not sufficient to warrant the 

 management recommended for resinous trees alone. Planta- 

 tions of this sort can be reduced to the grove kind only; or, if 

 the resinous trees be unequally distributed, to the grove in 

 some places, and the wood in others ; the methods of accom- 

 plishing which have been already noticed. Under each of these 

 heads, cases will frequently occur, where the tree or trees which 

 are most profitable in that part of the country are deficient, or 

 totally wanting, (at least to a great degree) in the plantation to 

 be reclaimed. In this case, it may be grubbed up and re- 

 planted; taking care to leave a sufficient number of trees either 

 scattered throughout, or in narrow strips, to shelter the young 

 plants or seeds. 



In reclaiming every kind of neglected, plantation in a moist soil, 

 recourse must be had to draining.. When it is omitted, every 

 other operation, however well performed, will in the end prove 

 unsuccessful.. The damage that many plantations suffer for want 

 of draining, particularly all the Royal forests, is incalculable. 

 Many thousands of acres would, by this operation alone, be 

 rendered of twenty times their present value*. 'As all planta- 



* See the Reports of the different counties given in to the Board of Agriculture. 

 The Bishop of Landaff's Observations, &c. The most striking instance which oc- 

 curred to me, in the course of my practice, was at Schawpark, near Alloa. 



