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from which one crop ot layers hits been taken, will continue, 

 under good niana^enient, for a number of years to })roduct 

 yearly crops of plants; and as these plants in favorable soils 

 are of sufficient size for sale the year after being removed from 

 the stocks, at least they will be larger than plants of five 

 years growth originated from seeds. Nurserymen find a 

 great saving in adopting this mode of propagation, but tlie 

 consequence falls on the planter, who is thus filling his 

 ground with trees which will never be equal to those which 

 have been originated from seeds. The consequence is oi 

 far less importance if such trees be planted for copse-wood, 

 as when cut down to the root, the future tree may, under proper 

 training, be much altered for the better. 



Maple. — {Acer. Cam pest re.) 



The common maple is acknowledged as indigenous to Bri- 

 tain, and is found in situations which can leave no doubt of 

 the assertion. It is not a tree of value for its timber, but is 

 ornamental, particularly when old, and probably less culti- 

 vated than any other of our indigenous j)lants. It is propa- 

 gated in the same manner as the sycamore, to which it is bo- 

 tanically connected, but which is a far more valuable tree. 



Okk. --{Qucrcus liobar.) 



The oak has long and justly been regarded as the monarch 

 of the wood, and it is one of the most generally useful and 

 highly-prized trees that abound in our forests. The oak 

 appears to be almost peculiar to Britain, no other country 

 excelling us either in the beauty, magnitude, or quality of our 

 oak timber, and this has been long ago noticed by our poets, our 

 statesmen, and historians. Although Scotland abounds with 

 oaks, yet there are not such specimens to be met with there 

 as in England, some of which we have measured from thirty 

 to forty feet in circumference Indeed, the larch may be now 

 called the national tree of Scotland, for which that country is 

 likely to be as famous as England has long been for the number 

 and magnitude of its oaks. The oak is not very choice in 

 regard to soil, for it prospers, although not with the same 

 degree of vigour, in almost all soils, and in almost all situ- 



