PLANTING. 



THE subject of planting- may, with propriety, be divided into three parts: 

 useful or forest-tree planting, ornamental or garden planting 1 , and 

 orchard or fruit-tree planting. Each of these divisions of the subject, 

 from its importance and interest, in a national point of view, as well 

 as to individuals, seems to demand a distinct treatise. 



The first of these, forest-tree planting, is proposed for the subject of the 

 following pages ; and the details of the theory and practice of the art 

 discussed under the following heads : 



I. Of some of the advantages resulting from judicious planting. 



II. Of the structure of trees ; and of the natural agents which influence 

 and govern the growth of the plant from the period of germination 

 to its full maturity. Of the seeds of forest-trees ; and of the processes 

 of vegetation. 



III. Of the different modes of rearing forest-tr^es : by sowing the seeds 

 on the spot where they are to remain for timber ; of sowing the seeds 

 on nursery beds, and afterwards transplanting the young plants to 

 their timber sites ; by preserving and training proper shoots or suckers, 

 produced by coppice roots or stools. Comparative advantages and 

 disadvantages of these different modes. Of simple and of mixed 

 plantations. 



IV. Of the soils and sites most profitably employed in the growth of 

 timber. Intimate nature of the different soils peculiarly adapted for 

 the growth of particular species of forest trees. 



V. Of the most approved modes of preparing different soils for the re- 

 ception of the plants : fencing, draining, ploughing, trenching. Of 

 the formation of rides or carriage-ways into the interior of plantations. 

 Of the best mode of covering these with herbage. 



VI. Of the culture of plantations: soil, pruning, thinning. Remedies for 

 accidental injuries, and natural diseases of forest-trees. Seasons for 

 felling trees. Of the tannin in the bark of different species of trees. 



VII. Of the progressive increase of the size or produce of wood in 

 different species of trees. Of the mode of valuing plantations : 

 present value ; prospective value. Of the products of plantations. 

 Of some individual trees which have attained to great perfection. 

 Of the terms used to denote certain products of plantations. 



VIII. An enumeration of the different species : those of large growth, 

 those of under growth for copse wood, ornament, or shelter. Ths 

 generic botanical characters. Their natural soils ; mode of propa- 

 gation ; and the uses to which their timber is more generally applied. 



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