. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. TURKEY, OR MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. 291 most of our plantations, and all of which, from theirhabit and mode of growth, are inimical to the progressof the Oak, we would recommend, in their stead, thefree admission of this tree, as it is not only a less inju-rious neighbour to its congener, but grows as rapidly,perhaps even more so than any of those above-men-tioned, and would, within the first thirty years, returnas great a profit by its thinnings, which make excellentbarrel staves, and are applicable to various other purposes ;when large
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. TURKEY, OR MOSSY-CUPPED OAK. 291 most of our plantations, and all of which, from theirhabit and mode of growth, are inimical to the progressof the Oak, we would recommend, in their stead, thefree admission of this tree, as it is not only a less inju-rious neighbour to its congener, but grows as rapidly,perhaps even more so than any of those above-men-tioned, and would, within the first thirty years, returnas great a profit by its thinnings, which make excellentbarrel staves, and are applicable to various other purposes ;when large, or at its prime, which is at seventy or eightyyears of age, it would produce a wainscot for cabinet andother internal work, superior in beauty and appearance tothat of the common Oak, and, if kept dry, equally as durable. It may, perhaps, be objected to such an extensive cul-tivation of the Cerris, that plants could not at present beprocured from the nurseries in sufficient numbers, or thattheir cost would not permit of their being used to the sameextent as
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