General Instructions. 



if they do, they vAW, of course, when they seek mere orna- 

 ment, ])ut different sorts of trees into the same plantation ; 

 making up their minds, of course, to see some of them a 

 couple of feet high, while others are thirty or forty feet high. 

 But, whatever men may do when they plant for mere orna- 

 ment, they ought to be a little more careful about insuring 

 growth in the trees when they plant for profit, and with a 

 hope that their plantations will become fortunes for their 

 children. 



85. In all cases where plantations are made for the pur- 

 poses of producing timber or underwood, all the trees 

 onght to be of one and the same sort ; and, as nearly as pos- 

 sible, of one and the same size and height, A Mr. Pontev, 

 in a book which he published about planting, gave it as 

 his opinion that a plantatiou ought to be composed of trees 

 of various sorts; because, as he asserted, their roots had a 

 variety of tastes, those of one tree liking . (or being partial 

 to, as the ladies call it) one sort of diet, and those of another 

 tree, another sort of diet ! He also contended that there 

 were these different sorts of diet in the ground ; and that 

 therefore, a Beech, a Birch, an Ash, an Elm, and an Oak, 

 might all live very harmoniously together, seeing that one 

 would feed greedily upon what all the rest would reject ; 

 and that, thus, you might as well have ten trees as one, if 

 there were, room enough for their trunks. 



86. It is truly surprising that any man should put forth 

 opinions like these at the end of almost the hundred years 

 that Mr.TuLL's famous work on the horse-hoeing hus- 

 bandry has been within the reach of every man in England, 

 and has been in the libraries of ail gentlemen in England 

 who have considerable libraries, for pretty nearly a hundred 

 years. This book taught the very first beginnings of the 



