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No. 42. Powerscourt Wood or Deer Park, . . . 129 



Impropriety of careless planting, . . 130 



Cheap method of enclosing Trees or Plants, . ib. 



Expense of planting by such a system, . 131 



Great advantages of transplanting Trees, and making Pol- 

 lards, ...... 132 



43. Wood or Deer Park, north side, . . . 133 



44. Powerscourt Glen Wood, . . . . 135 

 Oak Coppice will pay L.20 per acre of yearly rent, if at- 

 tended to in all such situations, . .136 



Trees in all such situations should always be converted 

 into the most profitable systems, . . ib. 



45. Coppice Wood, — same Glen, . . . . 137 



46. Leackenderry Hill, in Ireland, . . . 138 

 Immense profits from Natural Wood, . . 139 



47. Dai'gle Glen, Powerscourt, Ireland, ... ib. 

 Method of thinning, to keep a crop on the ground, ib. 



48. Great Propriety of establishing a Nursery on all 



Estates, ..... 142 



49. Improving pastui*e Lands, . . . 143 

 Want of clothing a great grievance to the operatives of 



Ireland, . . . ib. 



A remedy for this grievance, . . 144 



Example from the Scotch Highlanders, . ib. 



Draining and Biproving the Bogs and Marshes of Ireland, 149 

 Draining these Marshes within themselves where it is impossible 



to get a free level, without a prohibitory expense, . 151 

 Expense, method of cropping, manuring and Rental, . 154 

 Manuring and keeping in a productive state all such Lands, 157 

 Expense of this System of draining, realized in three years 



with a profit, . . . . 160 



By draining the Bogs for cropping, by improving the pastui'e 

 Land and planting the waste Lands of Ireland, will be the 

 best Poor Laws, and the best Emigration Laws that could 

 be introduced into Ireland, . . . 162 



No. 50. Planting exceedingly bare lands in Berwickshire, 164 



51. Wood Park, Linlithgowshire, . . .166 



52. Stripes and Belts in a very bleak part of the country, 169 



53. Some kind of Stripes in another part of the country, 170 

 A proper system of improving all such, . 172 



54. A young Plantation, . . , . 174 



55. Old Coppice, . ... 176 



56. Trees in approach to the House, . . 177 



