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Your young plants fhould be railed in a fitua- 

 tion as fimilar as poflible to that where you intend 

 they lhould continue ; for if they are tranfplanted 

 out of a rich warm nurfcry, it would prove their 

 deftruftion. As there is feldom fufficient depth 

 of foil among the rocks to receive long tap-roots, 

 the plants which naturally have them fhould be 

 cut off when they arc firft taken from the feed- 

 beds, and planted in the nurfcry. By treating 

 them in this manner, although their vigour will 

 be checked for the firft year or two, until they 

 have fent forth a number of lateral roots, they 

 will recover their ftrength, and prove equally 

 thrifty with others, 



Thefe plantations may be made with beech, 

 birch, oak, a(h, fycamore, and black poplar 

 always obferving to place the tendered trees in 

 the lead expofed lituations, where they are fhel- 

 tcred from north and eaft winds. In places 

 where the foil is very thin, raife little hillocks 

 about the young plants, which will greatly en- 

 courage their growth. 



In fuch bleak fituations, plant as late in the 

 fpring as you can with fafety. April is a month 

 in which it may be cxpedted the mod ftormy 

 weather is over, and all the kinds of trees I have 



mentioned 



