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roots as well as branches to spread, and encourages 

 their growth by keeping them in contact with the 

 elements, which is not the case when they are buried 

 deep down amongst wet, decayed, vegetable matter. 

 I have frequently lifted plants one and a half to three 

 feet high, as found growing amongst brackens or 

 heather, and so imperfectly rooted that a four-inch 

 flower-pot would have received them without binding 

 almost any of the fibres. It is sometimes commend- 

 able even to set fire to and burn a larch plantation 

 thus circumstanced, and then replant it, as thereby 

 a better and more successful growth is afterwards 

 attained. 



Another matter to attend to at this stage is that of 

 keeping off insects. Not very much can be done in 

 this way, but where caterpillar exists, it may be cleared 

 off by hand-picking, or the trees dusted over with 

 flour of lime : this is done by first damping the tree 

 with a watering-pan, and afterwards dusting it over 

 with the lime while wet. 



The Coccus Lciricis is an insect which is found less 

 or more abundantly in almost every larch plantation. 

 Its presence indicates stagnation of growth in the 

 trees, which is either caused by continued drought and 

 want of moisture, or by too much wet and confine- 

 ment, or by frosts in spring or early summer, — not an 

 unfrequent occurrence in damp and sheltered situations. 

 The former is remedied by the first copious rain and 

 genial weather, and the latter is best prevented by 

 thinning and giving the trees abundance of air, by 



