USEFUL PROJECTS. 
unoccupied spots of ground. They 
should be headed down at the time 
of transplanting, as this operation 
assists the process of nature, in re- 
producing or remedying any injury 
the tap root may have received 
from the removal, and, if proper 
attention be given to loosen the soil 
for their reception, and pruning 
them as they adyance, in most m- 
Stances an adequate profit will be 
derived from the labour bestowed 
upon them. After.a few years, the 
produce of the timber plantation will 
be found very advantageous. The 
young trees that are to be removed 
yearly, will always find a ready 
market for a variety of purposes, 
unnecessary here to enumerate. In 
addition to these advantages, if by 
this treatment of deep trenching 
previously to planting, and annual 
careful pruning during the growth, 
timber can be produced in about fif- 
ty years, of equal quality, and 
much superior in size, to that 
which has been above one hundred 
years growing under improper ma- 
nagement, or without the assistance 
of cultivation; it will, doubtless, be 
allowed, that a most beneficial, if 
not absolutely the best possible me- 
thod of “‘ raising oaks,” is here 
pointed out and ascertained. 
This method of cultivation may, 
perhaps, be- thought to occasion so 
much expence in manual labour, as 
to prevent its being generally adopt- 
ed: it might, perhaps, be sufficient 
to observe, that if the work be con- 
ducted with judgment and cecono- 
my, the future produce will afford 
ample returns for ail necessary ex- 
penditure: it should also be recol- 
lected, that the previous prepara- 
tion of the ground, and the subse- 
quent pruning of the plants, are 
both to be performed at that season 
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of the year, when a scarcity of work 
will enable the planter to obtain as- 
sistance upon easier terms; with 
this additional advantage also, of 
providing employment for the la- 
bourer at those times, when the ge- 
neral state of agricultural business 
renders it dificult for him to find 
maintenance for himself and family 
without charitable relief. 
In 1750, at Ingestrie, in Stafford. 
shire, the seat of lord Chetwynd, 
some plantations were formed and 
managed, in a great measure, ace 
cording to the principles here stat- 
ed, and the growth of the plants 
was so uncommonly rapid and so 
extraordinary, that it could not but 
attract the notice of all concerned in 
the eonduct of them. The attention 
to the subject then excited has been 
the occasion and ground of all the 
observations and experiments made 
from that time to the present, the 
result of which is given in this 
paper. 
The extensive plantations of the 
late lord Denbigh, at Newnham 
Paddox, in Warwickshire, are well 
known and much admired. ‘The 
whole has been conducted with 
great judgment. About a square 
acre has been employed in raising 
oaks upon a plan nearly similar to 
that now proposed, and affords the 
best and most convincing proof of 
the superior utility and eflicacy of 
such management. Had the noble 
earl been now living, I should have 
been enabled to have laid before the 
society some more detailed particu- 
lars: that, however, is now impos- 
sible; this paper, therefore, in its 
present state, may, perhaps, be 
thought not altogether unworthy of 
notice, as tending to forward the li. 
beral designs of the society, and 
contributing to the advantage of the 
3H4 ublic, 
