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PREFACE. 



that many profitable pearls may be gathered from 

 his rubbish. The incontrovertible facts here ad- 

 vanced, are not deductions from his own or any 

 man's theory 5 but the pure result of many years 

 practical experience. Since the publication of the 

 Forester's Guide, &c. &;c., he has had the honour to 

 be extensively employed on many estates, both in 

 Great Britain and Ireland. And he flatters him- 

 self, that he has collected a very great additional 

 stock of knowledge in his profession, and enriched 

 his repository with such a valuable collection of 

 facts, that their publicity, through the medium of 

 this Miscellany, cannot fail of being highly interest- 

 ing and useful to landed gentlemen. These will 

 illustrate to a certainty, not only the very great ad- 

 vantages arising from a judicious system of planting 

 and rearing Woods, Plantations, and Timber Trees; 

 but also the surest and speediest methods of obtain- 

 ing this object in all kinds of soil. In this volume, 

 the attentive reader will find the description of 

 Plantations corresponding to every soil, and in 

 every stage of the plant, from the Nursery to the 

 full grown Timber Tree. It must be observed, 

 that in making a selection of the various Woods, 

 Plantations, &c. to answer the purposes intended, 

 it w^as impossible to avoid repetitions. Still, they 

 will be found to differ from each other in some par- 

 ticular or other, and to apply to some Wood, Plan- 

 tation, or Timber Tree, on every estate ; by care- 



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