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waste of money, but is a great disappointment j be- 

 sides the want of a strict attention to this one thing, 

 nine plantations out of ten misgive altogether ; 

 hence, the general hue and cry against planting, as 

 say they, we will never see them either ornamental 

 or profitable ; whereas, by a due attention to the 

 aforesaid, a very few years will give a proprietor both 

 ornamental and profitable plantations. See this ex- 

 plained at large in my Forester's Guide, and Profit- 

 able Planter, second edition. 



No. XXIIL 

 Field. 



The row of old trees in this field should be al- 

 lowed to stand ; not one tree taken out, as it has a 

 very commanding and beautiful look at a distance, as 

 has also the strip at the head of the field ; it aflPords 

 shelter to the adjoining fields, as well as ornamental 

 to the place — ^being planted and formed at first on too 

 narrow a principle, nothing can with safety or pro- 

 priety be taken out of it. Strips and belts of plant- 

 ing made of this kind for shelter and ornament^ 

 should never be less than one hundred feet broad, 

 and always attended to in the thinning out as early 

 as possible, say when the trees are at a height of 

 eighteen or twenty feet ; they should be thinned out 

 at equal distances of twenty-five feet, tree from tree, 

 or if in very exposed places, to twenty feet, at which 

 they may stand as a finished strip or belt of planting, 

 taking special care to have them standing in a trian- 

 gular form, facing the wind. Observe, the thinning 



