134 GROWING GOLD. 



for the younger branches of families may be 

 thus obtained, by a trifling deposit, without 

 risk. 



The actual importance of this subject can- 

 not be thoroughly understood without the 

 charges against it being stated, and the 

 amount of the accumulation of the clear profit 

 being fully shown ; these are given in round 

 numbers, but always so as to reduce the 

 amount of the profit. 



If the trees be not thinned, but allowed 

 to overgrow each other, the underlings might 

 decay and die, but this would be compensated 

 by the increasing size and value of those that 

 remain. They might not stand quite so 

 regular as if thinned, but the rate of growth 

 would probably exceed that of the trees in 

 those plantations where there had been con- 

 tinual intermeddling : of course there will be 

 no profit from the thinnings. 



