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Garden, as is the case here ; on the contrary, 

 the trees in all plantations should stand closely 

 together, and meet at the top. It is the duty 

 of every person who has the care of such 

 property, to examine it thoroughly at least 

 once a year. He who fancies himself able 

 to draw up a correct report of the state of 

 a plantation, by merely riding round it, is 

 assuredly one of the second-sighted school; 

 it is admitted that it is not a very pleasant 

 occupation to examine young plantations, 

 especially in damp weather, but no one should 

 be appointed to offices who is above doing 

 the duty of them. 



Happening to remark to the head keeper 

 that an extensive part of this place, now 

 covered with rushes, fern, and bushes, would 

 make a very valuable plantation, it much 

 offended the gentleman ; why it should have 

 had that effect, it is difficult to discover, 

 unless he saw an encroachment on his six 

 hundred pounds per annum, an abridgment 

 of the pasturage of his numerous herd of 



