S5- ^^^i-' J'ounial of Fovcsiry. 



great advantage, as llie plants Avill be able under sucli favourable 

 conditions to establisli themselves before winter. 



Lefore the month is over we trust the harvest will be pretty 

 general throughout the country, and no time should Ije lost when the 

 fields are cleared to get the thorn hedges cut, as the worlcmen get 

 better footing on the stuljble, and the thorns are raked and burned 

 with far more ease than when the fields are ploughed. 



We M'ould also, with the editor's permission, put dov/n as one of 

 the items of worlc for the month, a little duty which we hope some 

 contribiitor qualified to do so will kindly take up, namely, to let our 

 readers know the best design for a shed or sheds in which to dry oak 

 bark ; also the best method of protecting the sides of open water- 

 courses from falling in, more especially with the view of saving them 

 from the destructive effects of such heavy currents as we have 

 experienced during the last niuntli. 



Vallcith Parle, N.B. V.. Baxtei;. 



lEELAND. 



Thinning overcrowded plantations should now be prosecuted with 

 vigour. This is an excellent time to have auctions of material 

 suitable for fencing, roofing, and other country pu.rposes. farmers 

 are all requiring more or less timber of various scantling at this 

 season, ^\■hile wheelwrights and country joiners are particularly 

 anxious for hardwood felled durino- autunn^ 



Switch hedges. Plashing quick fences ma}' be commenced towards 

 the end of the mouth. 



Transplant spruce, silver fir, and other evergreen trees, in belts and 

 screens infested with rabbits. Autumn is a very good time for 

 removing large trees, as the sap contained in the tree descends and 

 forlns a callus at the extremity of lacerated roots, which throws out 

 in a vely shoi't time an abundance of fibry roots. 



General planting should not be commenced until the very end of 

 the month, and even then only when the new wood on young plants is 

 fully ripe. According to an old belief, forest trees may be planted in 

 any month having an "r," but the season and the ground should 

 regulate planting ojierations. Where the ground is hard and dry, 

 with a southern aspect, it should be planted early in autuuni ; but 

 when a cold, damp, northern aspect, it should be operated on in spring, 

 and the same remark is applicable to ground overrun with rabbits, &c. 



In the nursery, cuttings of every kind should now be planted, also 

 ptocks for 'jraftin'4 ur budding on next season. 



