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furnished with fibres. All plants that labour under 

 any of the defects, or want any of the requisites, now 

 mentioned, ought to be unceremoniously rejected. If 

 the selection proceed according to these rules, it 

 will often happen that 150 or 200 out of every 

 thousand will be thrown aside. This will increase 

 the expense L. 3 or L. 4 perhaps on every 5000 or 

 6000 ; but the sacrifice will be more than compen- 

 sated by the extraordinary uniformity and vigoiu: 

 with which the plantation will come forward. 



No plants should be chosen that have stood 

 more than four years in the nursery line. The 

 high rent of lands often hinders nurserymen from al- 

 lowing so much room to their young trees when they 

 transplant them, as is necessary for their remaining 

 any considerable number of years, and when they 

 stand long, they are almost inevitably drawn up 

 weak, or otherwise injured. Some of the kinds, 

 such as the mountain ash and poplars, will be of 

 sufficient size, if they have stood two years in the 

 nursery lines ; the one having been removed from 

 the seed-bed when one year old, and the other hav- 

 ing been originally planted as cuttings. Two years 

 in the line are amply sufficient for the birch. As 

 for the oak, it should not, even in ornamental plant- 

 ing, be taken from the nursery at all, but its acorns 



