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Excerpt from The Practical Planter, Or, a Treatise on Forest Planting: Comprehending the Culture and Management of Planted and Natural Timber, in Every Stage of Its Growth: Also on the Culture and Management of Hedge Fences, and the Construction of Stone Walls, &C
The subject turns, in the second general head, on the various soils adapted to forest trees. Here a view is taken of the different kinds of Soils; and their composition, tex ture, admixture, kinds -of upper strata, sub strata, c. Remarked; thefisoils most parti cularlyffitt'ed for the different kinds of trees, with those on which they will thrive compa ratively, is then shewn and also a general view of the value, 'as timber, of each parti bular tree with'the effect the soil, in which they grow, has on that value. The use to which the particular kinds are generally ap propriated, is likewise detailed.
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