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PLANTING OF WASTE LAND. 



road of this kind should be of a breadth sufficient 

 to allow two carriages or loaded carts to pass each 

 other ; and no boggy places, or steep ascents, should 

 occur in the line of it. In plantations of a mode- 

 rate size, one road may be made to wind so as to 

 serve every purpose of accommodation. In more 

 extensive ones, it may become necessary to connect 

 branches here and there with the principal line, to 

 lay open a communication with the parts which it 

 cannot be made to approach but by giving it more 

 of the serpentine form than can be done without 

 occupying too much ground. 



SECTION IV. 



SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS.— SHELTER FOR DECIDU- 

 OUS TREES, &c. 



In addition to what has been said on the subject 

 of Planting in the preceding sections, the follow- 

 ing miscellaneous observations are submitted to the 

 consideration of the reader. 



Allusion has already been made to the advantages 

 which every species of trees derive from shelter, and 



