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contained in one single locust tree (tbree or four feet high at 

 the same time of planting), growing on the side of the 

 porter's lodge on the very same spot. 



49. 1: this gentleman had planted all young trees ; if he 

 had had all the deciduous trees of the same sort, age, and 

 size ; if he had cut them down and pruned them as here- 

 after to be mentioned, he would now, notwithstanding the 

 poorness of the ground, have had a plantation twenty feet 

 high and of uniform height ; and he would not have had 

 the mortification to see his row of large trees disappear one 

 at a time, and serving no other purpose (not, indeed, an 

 unuseful one,) than that of teaching him not to cxj)end his 

 money in the like way again. 



50. Well; but why, then, do nurserjmen, who must 

 understand this matter so well, keep such large trees in 

 their nurseries ? Simply because they know, from expe- 

 rience, that there are people who will bui/ them ; and it is 

 their business not to make plantations flourish, but to sell 

 trees. You never find one of them to recommend large 

 trees; I mean no one of any reputation. If they do sin a 

 little too much in this way, it is in the article of fruit trees ; 

 and they are not so much to blame even here ; for people 

 will have the large trees : they will stick up an orchard at 

 once : they will not believe, that a little young twig of a 

 tree will bring them, at the end of seven years, forty times 

 as many apples as a tree which has already got a stem as 

 big as their wrist, and a fine branching head. They will 

 not believe this ; and, therefore, the nurserymen are not to 

 blame. 



51. The reason why large trees ought not to be planted 

 is, that, at the end of five or six years, they, if they sncceecd 



