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GROWING GOLD. 



Forest is one of the number, and if a part 

 could be appropriated to the purpose, a 

 valuable crop of oak could be grown ; but the 

 arrangements must be different from those on 

 estates which limit it. 



As the nation possesses tracts of waste 

 land so extensive, it would most assuredly 

 be safer to cultivate timber for sale, than to 

 rely upon a revenue from the importation of 

 foreign timber, which is at all times liable to 

 a partial or even a total suspension. 



With respect to sowing acorns, there is no 

 doubt of its being done advantageously ; but all 

 such sowings require a vigilant and an acute 

 superintendent. In the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society, there are some valuable papers 

 on this part of the subject, which were written 

 by an illustrious and very clever lady. 



It is important that timber should be 

 grown upon the banks of all the great rivers, 

 particularly the Thames, as the trifling charge 



