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in the following part of the work. The sub- 

 jects next treated are the nursery, saving of 

 the seeds of trees, and purchasing of plants. 

 A chapter on the quahties of soil most pro- 

 per for the different kinds of trees, with re- 

 marks on aspect and elevation, and another 

 on ascertaining the quality of waste land 

 from the nature of the wild plants which 

 grow on it, succeed. The planting of waste 

 lands is the next subject that comes under 

 consideration. Then the management of 

 woods, according to the principles of the new 

 method proposed by the author ; the propa- 

 gation of underwood, and remarks on rais- 

 ing succession crops of timber, follow in the 

 order in which they are here mentioned. 

 An account of Sir Henry Steuart's cele- 

 brated method of giving immediate effect to 

 wood, by removing hirge trees, is added, as a 

 topic which it would now be unpardonable 

 to omit in any book on planting ; and the 



