General Instructions, 



ing its branches over the tops of every one of the others, 

 and leaving nothing alive of them, excepting the mere 

 stumps. In the making of plantations, trees would not, 

 except in particular instances, to be hereafter mentioned, 

 be planted so closely, as within two feet of each other; 

 but, if it were within four feet, or even six feet or more, 

 the effect would be proportionately the same : the roots 

 of the aspiring tree would rob those of the other trees; 

 and though it might not actually extend its branches over, 

 the tops of them, there would be the side shade, and all 

 the injuries arising therefrom. 



90. Therefore all the trees in a plantation intended to 

 produce timber, and all the plants of underwood intended 

 to produce poles, hoops and the like; all the trees and 

 plants, in every individual plantation, ought to be of one 

 kind. This has been very judiciously attended to by Lord 

 Viscount Folkestone, in some plantations of Locusts, 

 which he made in the Spring of 1823 or 1824. The whole 

 of his plantation of that year, consisted of perhaps thirty 

 or forty acres ; but his Locusts, which he did me the 

 honour to have from me, he planted in clumps, in divers 

 parts of the plantation, and agreeably to my advice, at the 

 distance of four feet apart, having no other trees planted 

 with them. I saw these clumps in the fall of 1826, many 

 of the trees being more than twenty feet high, almost all 

 being pretty nearly of an equal height. The rest of the 

 plantation had been made on the mixture plan. It was 

 difficult to say how that would go on, for the trees had 

 made comparatively little progress, while the Locusts were 

 really beautiful clumps of trees, notwithstanding that they 

 were no taller than the other trees, at the time of their 

 being planted. 



