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them : it is also stated that in Hampshire 

 alone there were nearly forty thousand acres 

 of wood land, exclusive of New Forest, 

 which consisted of ninety-three thousand 

 acres. 



As the attempt to grow such trees as are 

 natives of foreign soils is become so general, 

 it is necessary to show in what manner they 

 grow there. 



Mr. Brooke, in his travels to the North 

 Cape, admires the beauty of the forest 

 scenery, "where it is not so compact as to 

 admit light and air," (Quarterly Review, No. 

 59, p. 120). Let it be observed that the 

 words "to admit light and air^' furnish the 

 only excuse pruners and thinners of plan- 

 tations -have for the injury their plans dh, 

 wherever they are allowed to operate ; and it 

 is certain, the pine class stand much more 

 closely in their native wilds than modern 

 planters appear to believe it possible for 

 them in order to arrive at maturity. 



