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GROWING GOLD. 



(it can hardly be called growth) than one 

 penny each ! ! ! 



The professional planters also styled them- 

 selves pruners (Pontey for instance) ; if in 

 the former character they had recommended 

 planting trees of one species very closely 

 together, there would have been no prospect 

 of employment in the latter capacity ; because 

 there would have been no horizontal branches 

 to be cut off. It is hardly possible that they 

 could really believe that the system which 

 they recommended was in accordance with 

 the operations of nature, or that it was the 

 most advantageous one that could be adopted 

 by their employers. The same system has 

 been recommended for the south of England 

 as for the north of Scotland, notwithstanding 

 the great difference of the climate: in the 

 latter there are natural pine forests," the 

 timber of which is stated to be of excellent 

 quality and full of turpentine, and which no 

 doubt is matured by the coldness of the 

 situation — verging upon perpetual snow. 



