Forest Work for the Month. 7 1 7 



pared, only an excess of work can furnish a sufficient reason for planting 

 not being finished before the cutting winds of March come upon us. 

 To put off planting till late in spring, with no other reason than 

 waiting for the proper season, is in no way to be recommended. On 

 tlie other hand, it is advisable for all parties who intend to plant 

 this season, that they should at once proceed with the work during 

 favourable weather, and have it finished up during the present month. 



The thinning of hardwood plantations (oak excepted) should as far 

 as possible be finished this month, before the buds begin to expand 

 after which they are apt to get damaged and disbudded by the falling 

 of the thinnings. Trees are also less liable to suffer from being 

 exposed to cold winds, &c., when relieved before they show signs of 

 growth, except when left for operating upon during the summer 

 months. Dispose of all thinnings, and have them removed from the 

 plantation as soon as practicable, as recommended last month. Where 

 fagots and other oven or firewood are required for home consump- 

 tion, they should be bound up and stacked without delay ; if allowed 

 to remain lying in the woods during summer they get entangled with 

 herbage, briars, &c., and are difficult to remove. 



Breast and cut over hedges, and fill up gaps in old ones by planting 

 young thorns. Hedges are generally delayed planting until spring, or 

 when aU forest and other planting has been finished. 



If the bed for receiving the plants has been trenched during the 

 winter or autunni, it is preferable to planting the young hedge in newly 

 trenched ground, and in such a case it is well to plant at once. In 

 bleak and exposed situations we always cut over the thorn plants 

 previously to planting them. 



Keep drains clear and in good working order. It wiU be necessary 

 to overhaul them in newly thinned plantations. 



Eemove and transplant young stock in the nursery. In removing 

 young oaks it may be necessary to root-prune them, but it should be 

 done with great caution and not too severely. 



Kinmel Parh. Lewis Bayne. 



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