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VII. Cruickshank's Practical Planter. 



After the preceding parts of this volume had 

 gone to press, we received a copy of Cruickshank's 

 Practical Planter. We endeavour to give a short 

 view of the contents. 



The author commences with some general re- 

 marks on the expediency and profit of laying uncul- 

 tivated ground under timber, stating, rather too 

 strongly, the very superior income derivable from 

 forest than from heathy moors, and its advantages to 

 the soil. No doubt, a great portion of the higher and 

 more rocky part of Scotland is susceptible of little 

 other improvement than planting ; and, under tim- 

 ber, would produce more than ten times the income 

 that it does in pasture ; and the patriotic motive of 

 embellishing his country, and enriching his country- 

 men, may excuse his having drawn the advantages 

 of planting in rather high colours. Mr Cruick- 

 shank's statement (as he says, designedly kept ra- 

 ther below the truth), that an acre of moor, of ave- 

 rage quality, covered with Scotch fir, sixty years 



