88 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



It is indispensably necessary, in following 

 this mode of preparation, to plough the land 

 to its full depth each time. In this inten- 

 tion, where the soil is deeper than the plough 

 can reach at one furrow, it is a good method 

 to make another plough follow in the same 

 furrow. 



4-thly. PITTING ONLY. This is an im- 

 portant article, on which I wish to be par- 

 ticular, because the judicious performance 

 thereof is of the utmost consequence to the 

 establishment of the young plants. 



Other than on untillable sites, pitting only 

 is not advisable. I am therefore to be un- 

 derstood as treating of unculturable steeps, 

 coal or lime drifts, stoney, or rocky places, 

 &c. where the plough cannot be intro- 

 duced : places most frequently appropriated 

 to the culture of timber. 



And first, I wish to observe, that 1 point- 

 edly disapprove of pitting and planting at the 

 same time : a practice very common. Se- 

 condly, that I also disapprove of the com- 

 mon method of digging out the mould, and 

 laying it for a time, until the season of plant- 

 ing, around the pit on the surface. Because, 



