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Excerpt from The Forester: Being Plain and Practical Directions for the Planting, Rearing, and General Management of Forest Trees
Having, for the period of fifteen years, had my attention almost entirely devoted to the rear ing up and cutting down \of forest trees, I have during that time seen much to convince me that arboriculture is not in that advanced state among us which its real importance demands.
The present improved condition of agriculture is the natural result of the great attention paid to that science by the landed proprietors and farmers of Great Britain during the past twenty years; while, upon the other hand, the proper management of plantations has been almost entirely neglected, and this mainly because landed proprietors have not had their attention and interest directed towards the subject.
Many of our home woods are rapidly dying out, as if by consumption; yet the cause does not appear to be known among those who have the management of them: and, seeing this state of things, it appears to me very evident, that until.
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