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CHAPTER IV. 



ON THE QUALITIES OF SOIL MOST PROPER FOR THE 

 DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF FOREST TREES; WITH 

 REMARKS ON ASPECT AND ELEVATION. 



It is evidently a great error, if we plant with a 

 view of pecuniary advantage, to put a less valuable 

 kind of timber into ground, capable of producing a 

 full crop of a more valuable kind. 



There are cases, however, in which we may sus- 

 tain an equal, or even a greater loss, by following 

 an opposite course ; for, on some lands, we will 

 gain most by cultivating the sorts of wood that 

 sell lowest when brought to market ; on the same 

 principle as the farmer often finds his account 

 more in raising a crop of oats than one of wheat. 

 Fir- wood, for example, is in general worth less per 

 solid foot than ash ; yet there are many soils which 

 will produce a quantity of the former so much 

 greater than they will do of the latter, as to render 



