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MEAKS OF SPEEDY WOODING 



should be used according to the plan described in 

 the foregoing part of this work. 



PREPARATION OF GROUND. 



Another point that must be carefully attended to, 

 is the preparation of the ground, and on this being 

 executed properly, the quickness of the plantation's 

 progress will most of all depend. In planting with 

 a view chiefly to profit, it is better to let the ground 

 remain in its original state, or nearly so, not only in 

 order to avoid expense, but that the wood may not 

 be deteriorated in quality, which, in many species of 

 trees, it will be, if its growth be greatly accelerated 

 by artificial means. Besides, where hundi*eds and 

 thousands of acres of rough uncultivated moor are 

 to be planted, ploughing, trenching, and especially 

 manuring, are altogether impracticable ; and to ad- 

 vise such operations, or speak of them as necessary 

 in such cases, is in other words to dissuade from 

 extensive planting in our waste land. When, 

 however, it is not profit, but ornament, that is in 

 view, the case is entirely altered, and every means 

 of accelerating the growth of the trees, so as to 

 make them serve their intended purpose as expedi- 



