viii INTRODUCTORY VIEW. 



propriety of planting nurse-plants, with the 

 kinds most valuable for that purpose, illus- 

 trated. 



I next proceed to remark the proper season 

 and manner of performing the important 

 operation of planting ; stating the most effec- 

 tual and simple methods for insuring success, 

 according to existing circumstances. The 

 method of sowing acorns among planted tim- 

 ber trees, by which, I presume, the best oak- 

 lings are reared, is shewn ; and the most 

 rational mode of culture, whether by the 

 hoe, or by otherwise destroying noxious 

 weeds or plants, until the trees be no longer 

 subject to injury. 



The consideration of Training, Pruning, 

 Thinning ; the treatment of Wounds, Bruises, 

 &c. come next under view. Here I endea- 

 vour to set forth, in the most plain and ra- 

 tional manner, the methods of TRAINING 

 TIMBER FOR USEFUL PURPOSES; for straight- 

 timber, for crooked-timber in naval archi- 

 tecture ; for manufactures ; for machinery ; 



