THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



thin soil, the margin, on all sides, should be 

 planted at not more than two feet apart ; the 

 interior parts at three. Those lying on a 

 more sheltered situation, and of deeper soil, 

 may be allowed distance according to cir- 

 cumstances. But narrow stripes, or small 

 clumps, even if the soil may be termed 

 good, should generally be planted thicker 

 than a more extended mass, that the plants 

 may afford each other shelter. 



Atthly. For the most sheltered sites, where 

 the soil is deep, good, and where apparently 

 every plant will grow, six feet will be a good 

 medium distance. Wider than this, I can- 

 not approve in any case whatever : because, 

 at this distance, the plants have room to grow 

 till their thinnings would be useful. But 

 even, were this not an object, there is a 

 greater ; namely, that the plants may not 

 grow too squat in their infancy, and that the 

 *' pruning hook" be not much wanted in the 

 formation of stately tipiber. But of this, see 

 Section VIII. 



Again, he who plants too thin, with the 

 idea of saving trouble in thinning, deviates 

 as widely from the right path, as he who 



