PLANTING. 



No doubt, by cultivating vegetables, as 

 potatoes, cabbages, carrots, &c. amongst the 

 trees, where the soil is good and adapted to 

 the purpose, the expence of keeping the 

 ground clean may be more than defrayed* 

 But who will dispute, that to keep the 

 ground equally clean 5 without growing these 

 crops, would be more advantageous to the 

 timber trees f 



It may not be difficult to prove, that, in 

 many instances, instead of the timber crop 

 being benefited, it is impoverished by the cul- 

 ture of vegetables ; which, through niggard* 

 liness, for want of manure, and by being too 

 long persisted in, frequently operates much 

 more to its injury, than if the ground were 

 suffered to run wild with weeds. 



Yet, when performed with discretion, the 

 practice of growing vegetables among plant- 

 ed timber is highly commendable. In this 

 case, the timber is the principal, and the 

 vegetables the secondary object ; otherwise^ 

 the practice is not founded in reason. I 

 would have the subject viewed in this light : 

 Grow so many vegetables only among the 

 trees as you think will defray the expence 



