CHAPTER VI.

Planting: Its Pleasures -- Vast Effect of the Writings of Evelyn in England, and Dr. Johnson in Scotland -- Evidences of the Growth of the Planting Spirit in all Parts of the Kingdom -- Wordsworth’s Complaint of the Larch in the Lake Country -- Larch Plantations of the Duke of Athol -- His calculated Profits -- Monteith of Stirling’s Calculations of the Profits of 100 Acres of Oak Planting in seventy years -- Anecdote of an extensive Planter 59