102 GROWING GOLD. 



and its growth of stem is proportionably 

 less. 



MAKING PLANTATIONS. 



It might be thought that the object of 

 this work was but half accomplished, if no 

 attempt were made to state the most advan- 

 tageous system of growing timber. The 

 directions must of course be general, because 

 there are so many different soils and situations 

 in which a different arrangement might be 

 necessary, to render it probable that a crop 

 would grow to maturity. It should on every 

 occasion be understood, before any tree is 

 planted, what the average height is in its 

 native regions, and whether it has the power 

 to adapt itself to its new situation. There 

 are many plantations of a mixture of the pine 

 class, made upon the exposed peaks of hills ; 

 when the trees reach to forty or fifty feet 

 high, they suddenly cease to grow higher, 

 and throw out secondary leading shoots and 

 large branches, which give the wind double 



