82 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



haps, shedding a considerable quantity of 

 them over the adjacent spaces, but leaving 

 the greater part in rows. The ground was 

 not ploughed, but pitted, because the for- 

 mer operation was impracticable, by reason 

 of the strength of the whin roots. Nor 

 were these, on account of the expence, 

 stubbed up. 



The effect of the ashes was such, that on 

 the wind-rows an astonishingly luxuriant 

 herbage rose the following season ; inso- 

 much, that the trees were completely co- 

 vered in summer, and borne down by the 

 weight of the herbage in winter, till relieved 

 by the hand. The next season the herb- 

 age was somewhat less luxuriant ; but even 

 the third season it was more so on the wind- 

 rows than it was the first season on the inter- 

 stices. 



Until the third season the effect of the 

 manure on the trees was not perceptible. 

 But from this time, for three or four suc- 

 cessive years, the difference of growth on 

 the trees of the wind-rows and intervals was 

 very obvious, and greatly in favour of the 

 former. 



