SECT. X. OF FOREST TREES. 117 



when the principal trees are full grown. Avenues to 

 profpecls, mould be fifty or fixty feet wide. 



The belt feafon for planting the deciduous kinds of 

 foreft trees, is the latter end or" October, and evergreen 

 forts, the latter end of March though the foil, whe- 

 ther light and dry, or heavy and wet, mould fome- 

 what direct; evergreen trees being to be planted gene- 

 rally with fafetv, early in autumn, if the foil is warm ; 

 but in all cafes trees mould be planted in dry weather, 

 that the mould may be loofe to drop in, and lie dole 

 between the roots, which is a material thing : Trees 

 planted in rain or mills, are injured by the moifturc 

 moulding the roots. 



Fortfl. trees for planting are generally preferred 

 rather large, and being fo, fhould not be taken up idly, 

 but with as much of an uninjured fpread of roots as 

 poflible: yet, free growing plants of about three or four 

 feet high, promife in the end to make finer trees than 

 thofe that are planted larger. Some fay they are beft 

 at this fize from \\vt feed bed; and others, to have been 

 once planted out, having had their tap roots then cut, 

 and generally fpeaking, this is the cafe, as they have a 

 more bufhy and horizontal root. 



In the ait of planting, let every tiling be done as 

 directed for fruit trees; i. e. the hole dug wide and deep, 

 the ground well broken, or rather fifted, to lay imme- 

 diately about the roots, &c. Let the trees be made 

 faft by flakes, and litter laid about their roots to keep 

 out froft and drought. It is of much confequence to 

 take care that the roots (efpecially of evergreen trees) 

 do not get withered before planted. Evergreens do belt 

 in a dry, but deciduous foreft trees (generally) in a moift 

 foil, if it is not wet. Oaks in particular, though at 

 firft they may appear to do poorly, grow well in ftrong 

 moift ground, and make the belt timber. 



Fencing is the lafl thing to be confidered. If trees 

 are planted where cattle go, their items muft be pro- 

 tected from barking and rubbing. The common way 



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