78 OF A NURSERY. SF.CT. VI. 



The railing of forest trees is rather beficle the 

 purpofe of this book. They have been mentioned as 

 to the time of Jewing, and their treatment is in a great 

 rneafnre the fame as for railing flocks for fruit trees ; 

 fo that to thofe who would do only a little in this way, 

 much more need not be faid. 



Forefl trees are often left to grow thick on the feed 

 bed, and only thinned a little in the autumn following, 

 and fo from time to time as they get bigger; but a 

 little thinning mould take place in the fummer, by draw- 

 ing, when the ground is moift. If the foil that feed- 

 jing trees are to be planted in be poor, let them be 

 railed in earth fomewhat fandy, and at any rate not in 

 a rich dunged foil. 



When young men take to gardening and planting, it 

 is an happy circumftancc, and they fhould lofe no time 

 in the bufinefs ; for it is a thing that perfons advanced 

 in years have often repented of. It produces confider- 

 able fatisfaclion, and a peculiar pleafure in the evening 

 of life, when a man can point at good trees, and fay, 

 " Thefe are of my own planting /" — but it were a 

 fuperior thing to add, " And of my own raiflng too." 

 Young planters would wifely refolve, therefore, to raife 

 their own trees, efpecially of the fireft kind. " There 

 is no better, or. cheaper way of raifing woods and 

 plantations, than by lowing the malls or nuts of timber 

 trees, where they are always to remain, and this is 

 bell: done in fpring." 



It is to be obferved, that the tyildfervice, hawthorn, 

 holly, and ajh keys come up the fee on d year; but molt 

 other feeds of trees the firft. Alh keys, however, (and 

 probably the others,) if they are buried in a pit with 

 coal afhes lifted fine, or in a fandy earth for a year, 

 will cerne up the fir ft year they are fown. 



To have good feed of the various kinds, is a thing 

 too little attended to ; but on which evidently depends 

 much. It fhould he well-ripened, and the produce of 

 fine healthy trees from the top, or outfi.de branches ; 



withal, 



