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Excerpt from The Profitable Planter: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees, in Every Description of Soil and Situation; More Particularly on Elevated Sites, Barren Heaths, Rocky Soils, &C
Undoubtedly, the value Ofany article depends much upon a know ledge of its proper application, or, in Other words, Of the ules it is fit for; and certainly no one can alfert, With truth, that we have more than very limited and vague ideas of the proper ufes of fuch timber. Vve know, that molt or them may be grown very rapidly, fome of them on (0113 of tery trifling value, and Others in a way lo as to detriment the lands or herbage very little: We know, in fiiort, how to cultivate the Vi hole, With abundant fuccefs; litll we can ne vet make the proper ufe of this knowledge, until better mllru�led in the matter Of 11 c. Undoubtedly, different perfons are in potlef lion of has, that nould greatly allifl, in elumdating the fubje?, if we had the means of colle�liog them. And it may alfo be obferved, that fa ts, fiom dgferent quarters, mull produce more convielton than what is furnilhcd by one, however refpt�lable. I cannot fup pofe any perfon, policlling fuch ufeful information, could Willi to withhold it; and, therefore, beg leave to folicn fuch communications as may tend to (how, for what purpofes thefe fpecies of timber are proper, or the reierfc. Thele communications, or, at the leaf}, their lubflatice, it is intended to print fepaiately, bv way of appendix to this worl', lo foon as a quantity is collefied, that {ball be deemed of ll'lilclcnt importance, for that purpofe. - They Will appeai either Will] the Ult'r's ligiiature, or otherwife, as may be molt agreeable to hittifell. On luch a ftilzjc�l it is almoll unnecellary to lay, that no anonymous com mumcaiion can benotict d. The communications jiiay either be adcitefied, by letter, to the author, at Huddersfield, ii'or/jnzie, Oi left at Mr. Harding's, Bookfeller, St. ]ames's Street, loiij'oh.?ammable iblantet'.
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