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feet, for large ornamental timber trees ; keep always 

 the ground full of oak coppice for underwood, to be 

 cut over every twenty years. Thin out the young 

 part of it, at the south end, to eight feet, clearing 

 away the firs from the hardwood plants. Nothing 

 looks worse than strips and belts of planting along a 

 public road, when they are permitted to fall into de- 

 cay, which is the case with two many of our strips 

 and belts of planting about half a century old. 



No. LXIII. 



Young Plantation. 



In this plantation, as well as in all the other young 

 new made plantations, there are far too many larch 

 firs ; it would be much better to take a great many 

 out just now, and put in other trees, to be reared up 

 to maturity, as ornamental standing timber trees, 

 and thus get a finished plantation at once, rather 

 than wait on it. A number of the larch firs will trans- 

 plant yet. As this plantation, adding to the old 

 belts, will form the whole, when once up into a clump 

 or cluster of plantation, or rather a strip or belt, 



which from its proximity to the house of , and 



no other that may be called a plantation on this side, 

 it should be reared up full with various kinds of 

 trees, particularly such as will become ornamental 

 long lived trees ; w^hen the larch firs are taken out, 

 as aforesaid, Spanish chesnut should be put in ; here 

 I may observe, by the way, that my reasons for re- 

 commending Spanish chesnut so much, is, first, be- 

 cause it is the most ornamental of all the hardwood 



