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ON USEFUL AND 



BOOK I. 



CONCLUSION. 



In concluding these remarks, I beg to refer such of my 

 readers as may wish for more information on the subject, to the 

 many very good Treatises on Planting which are already pub- 

 lished. Something useful will be found in every one of them. 

 Some contain minute practical directions for performing the 

 operations of planting ; others treat of the various soils conge- 

 nial to the different kinds of trees, and the various modes by 

 which they are propagated ; others have embraced the subject 

 in a more general way, and treated of both trees and planta- 

 tions. But it appears to me (and, I doubt not, it will occur to 

 every one who is in any degree conversant with planters, or 

 books on planting), that none have hitherto considered wood 

 in an ornamental point of view, and in connection with the ac- 

 tual formation and management of young plantations; two 

 things so intimately connected, that I do not conceive how 

 they can be separated from each other with propriety. For 

 though a tree be the most beautiful and the most useful of in- 

 animate objects, yet, from ignorance of one or other of these 

 properties, we daily see gardeners forming plantations that hurt 

 the appearance of the country and particular places, or such as 



