GENERAL EEMARKS. 



Look frequently over young plantations, and see that all is going on 

 satisfactorily, and the plants are not being choked with ferns, whins, 

 broom, brambles, or other rank vegetation, which ought always to be 

 cut down before they are likely to interfere with the health of the 

 plants. 



Trees that have been planted a few years ought now to be looked 

 over, and all shoots competing with the leader should be shortened or 

 removed with a pruning knife, so as to direct the sap into the main 

 stem to form a strong and vigorous leader ; and with that view all 

 other gross shoots throughout the tree ought to be regulated with the 

 knife, taking care to avoid reducing the foliage too much at any 

 single pruning season, else the tree may suffer in health from want of 

 leaves to elaborate the sap. Tree-pruning of any kind ought always 

 to be performed with great circumspection, and by ah experienced 

 person, who has a full knowledge of the object desired to be attained. 



When other work gets slack, no opportunity should be lost in 

 clearing, draining, and fencing land which is intended to be planted 

 during the ensuing season. Such work is too often neglected until 

 there is not time left to perform it in a satisfactory manner, and by 

 getting it done at this season of the year, when the days are long and 

 the weather dry and favourable, it can be executed in the best 

 manner for the ultimate success of the plantations, and at much less 

 cost. 



Pay every attention to keeping the nursery clear of weeds at this 

 season, as many of them run to seed in a few days when the weather 

 is hot and dry, and give no end of trouble to get rid of them again. 



Weeds cut down by the hoe in a young and tender state imme- 

 diately disappear under the scorching rays of the sun, but if they 

 have been allowed to get to the flowering state, they must be 

 collected and carried off the ground as soon as they are cut, to pre- 

 vent them maturing and shedding seeds, which many of them will do 

 if allowed to remain on the ground where they have been laid by the 

 hoe. It is bad economy to let weeds get to such a size, and in 



