PLANTING, 109 



SECTION IV. 



On the Mixture of the different Kinds, their relative Si- 

 tuations, most proper Nurses, Kc. 



Isf. OF THE MIXTURE OF THE DIFFE- 

 RENT KINDS. Opinions vary so much re- 

 specting this point, that it is with consider- 

 able diffidence I enter on the subject. Nor 

 can I, on any other account reconcile my 

 own practice of planting many kinds en 

 masse instead of distinct groupes, than that 

 thereby is discovered with greater certainty 

 which is best adapted to the situation and 

 soil : a point not unimportant ; for the most 

 sagacious will acknowledge, that in this he 

 has been often deceived. 



I have already said that this is the best 

 criterion in a doubtful case. All extensive 

 planting affords many such cases. Nay, 

 even in a single acre we often meet with 

 soils different in texture and depth ; and 

 with those which are, stratum super-stratum, 

 also different; the under one being not un* 



