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larly the ash, which will make much more ornamen- 

 tal and better trees in quality of timber here ; fill up 

 with plants of oak, beech and elm j rear all the new 

 growths, even of hazel, &c. for underwood, with which 

 it should be always covered, as it will cover over the 

 drains, and give a much more agreeable look to the 

 surface of the wood. This part of the plantations 

 will very soon show the excellent effects of drain- 

 ing, will now carry fine timber trees, of almost 

 every description. I would say to the forester, go 

 and do likewise to all the other marshy wet places. 

 I have known many old trees, even apparently dead, 

 when the ground was allowed to lie wet, recovered 

 by judicious surface draining. 



No. XXII. 

 V Glen. 



*' Nothing exaggerate, extenuate, or set down aught in malice.** 



This bank of old wood on the left, going up, re- 

 quires filling up, which should be done with plants of 

 oak, Spanish chesnut, plane, and elm. Where very 

 wet, surface drain — where damp and cannot begot per- 

 fectly drained, plant willow tree and poplar, a few 

 spruce firs may also be put in the bank. On the right, 

 going up, is a bank of very fine young trees, chiefly 

 oak, which, in my opinion is very properly done, it 

 is thriving, and if attended £o as it ought, it will soon 

 be a very fine bank of valuable timber trees. Ob- 

 serve the method of thinning as laid down in planta- 

 tion No. IV. There is a fine single row of old trees, 



