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monstration, and agreed at all hands, that to hav^ 

 standing ornamental timber trees here, is everything 

 that is required, and to obtain which is the great 

 and leading object to be kept in view ; for this pur- 

 pose, a selection of the longest-lived and most orna- 

 mental trees, at proper distances, should have been, 

 and should yet be planted. This desirable object 

 may easily be obtained at a trifling expense, safely, 

 permanently, speedily, and beautifully by the follow- 

 ing method : Plant the oak, Spanish chesnut, Scotch 

 elm, English elm, ash, plane, beech, spruce and sil- 

 ver firs alternately, at from thirty-two to thirty-six 

 feet distant, plant from plant, in all the blanks be- 

 twixt the brow of the hill, say, as far up as the high- 

 est of the old trees, and down to the river ; enclose 

 them singly with small stakes, warp these for two feet 

 up with the small branches of larch fir, which will 

 last for ten years,* and most effectually protect them 

 from deer, hares, rabbits, (although these were as 

 thick as the ground would support them,) and also 

 from the storm, blow as it will, till they were trees of 

 such a size as to be completely out of danger. Be- 

 ing thus securely sheltered and protected, they will 

 grow as much in one year, and that too without the 

 risk of misgiving, as they otherwise would, in 

 three years, the soil being excellent, not to men- 

 tion the present planting, which, to say the least of 

 it, is no planting. But to the expense, — ^50 trees 

 will be sufficient for each acre, as a lawn of orna- 

 mental timber trees, particularly here, these 100 acres 

 will take 5000 plants, at ^5s. per thousand, is L.6, 



* I have known the warping of paling by branches of lareli fir, keep 

 out hares, rabbits, &c. for twenty years from a nursery with very httk 

 help. 



