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the whole must be planted with oak at eight feet dis- 

 tant, plant from plant ; in some of the exposed, or 

 very bare places, a larch fir may with propriety be 

 put in as a nurse tree betwixt every oak, only till the 

 oak gets about six feet high, when the larch should 

 be cut out. Before making the sale, it will be pro- 

 per to have the lots marked off, and a value put on 

 each lot, either for the upset price or for making an 

 offer for the proprietor, in case of combination among 

 the offerers, and if there is a demand, and likely to 

 bring its value, the more lots sold in one year so 

 much the better ; should the proprietor think proper 

 to adopt this plan, there should not be a day lost in 

 advertising and selling the wood preparatory to plant- 

 ing. Should the proprietor think it proper to rear it 

 up as a fir plantation, it should be immediately thin- 

 ned out from eight to ten feet, tree from tree, and in 

 five years after, to about sixteen feet, tree from tree, 

 and the remaining fir trees allowed to stand to ma- 

 turity ; but this plan will never pay the estate one 

 pound in seven that the natural oak will do 5 I would 

 therefore call the proprietor's immediate and parti- 

 cular attention to converting it into an oak coppice, 

 kc. 



Experiment Farm, June% 1827, 



Dear Sir, — I have made an attempt to ascertain 

 whether the common Scotch oak or the Turkey oak 

 bore the greater weight of bark ; which I have com- 

 pared with as much exactness as I could, and I hope 

 the result will be satisfactory. 



