A series of facts, hints, observations and experiments on the different modes of raining young plantations of oaks : "for future navies" from the acorn, seedling, and larger plants shewing hte difficulties and objections tha thave occurred in the practical part ; with remarks upon the fencing, draining, puring and training young trees a clear and copious statement of the early and great Profits and Advantages which may be derived from Plantations of mixed and various trees, by care and attention and the contrary effects from negligence ; also how trees are retarded or accelerated in growth by
A series of facts, hints, observations and experiments on the different modes of raining young plantations of oaks : "for future navies" from the acorn, seedling, and larger plants shewing hte difficulties and objections tha thave occurred in the practical part ; with remarks upon the fencing, draining, puring and training young trees a clear and copious statement of the early and great Profits and Advantages which may be derived from Plantations of mixed and various trees, by care and attention and the contrary effects from negligence ; also how trees are retarded or accelerated in growth by the management of young plantations with hints and experimental remarks upon fruit trees ; the whole derived from actual experience on a most extended scale . d, as is too oftenthe case, and suffered to grow all together,you will soon have nothing but naked un- 184 sightly trees about your mansion, with afew branches only on one side, and per-haps only a few at the top, with the veryobjects they were intended to hide in fullview through the naked tall slender stems;but by attending to the rules I have beendescribing, in about 10 or 15 years, allthose objects will be happily a young gentleman, when he beginsplanting, would but well consider thesethings, what may he not live to see in hisdays ? The most beautiful and ornamentaltrees flourishing round his domain of hisown planting, with all his ideas of orna-ment, blinds, skreens, or shelter accom-plished ; instead of the dismal spectacle,after a few years, of returning to the statein which he first found it, all open, ex-posed, and naked at the bottom ! The engraved groups of plants in thetwo following pages represent larches,with oaks, beeches, or other trees, at 4feet k
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