F O R E S T - T R E E S. 249 



diredled, will put them beyond the want of any further afhfl- 

 anc€, than they mutually communicate to one another. 



Having planted then one half of your intended Foreft, free 

 from {landing water, with Planes, in rows ten feet afunder and 

 five in the row, confult the genius of every fpot in it, that the 

 remaining more valuable plants may be difpofed on the differ- 

 ent foils they mofl delight in, which, in general, I take it to be 

 as follows : 



In the moft generous, d^ep, but dry foils, the Walnut, with 

 Englifh, Scots, and Cornifli Elms ; in the moift and heavy, the 

 Dutch Elm ; in coarfe and ftoney, the Chefnut and Aili ; in 

 light and fandy, the Larch and Beech ; and in clays of all qua- 

 Hties, tho' fwampy and moffy, the Oak, Thefe are the foils 

 moft univerfally prevailing in Great Britain, and thofe the trees 

 nature feems beft to have fitted for fuch foils. They are alfo of 

 the greateft value, and moft general ufe, tho', if a little orna- 

 ment and variety is wanted, a fmall mixture of the hardy Ameri- 

 can forts may be added ; l>ut profitable returns being the princi- 

 pal obje(5l of this Elfay, to that I chufe, in a great mealure, to 

 confine myfelf, 



Where the grounds are various, and the trees thus properly 

 adapted to that variety of foils, an extenfive plantation, diverfified 

 with groups of different trees in its different quarters, will ap- 

 pear far more chearful and pidlurefque, than one uniform wood 

 of the fame kind. 



Such a Foreft, and to be planted in the manner I here de- 

 fcribe, I mean fliould be in a flat field, or at leaft one not 



I i 



