THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



necessary to determine on the planting of 

 hedge-row and detached trees, at least one 

 year before the work be put in execution, 

 that they may be trained, and their roots pre- 

 pared, in order the better to insure success. 



In the case of planting hedge-row trees 

 around the fences of arable fields, there is a 

 time which may be deemed more happy for 

 that purpose than another, namely, the first 

 season of such fields being broke up from 

 pasture ; because, if they undergo a rational 

 management, they will probably be kept in 

 tillage some years before they are again laid 

 down ; and, in the interim, the plants will 

 advance apace, and before cattle are again 

 turned in, the tops will generally be beyond 

 their reach. Neither will it be requisite to 

 rail off the trees till this time ; nor, to prevent 

 the cattle from injuring the tops or branches, 

 will it be necessary to place the rails so far 

 out, or occasion so great a waste of land. 



But, in the case of planting detached trees, 

 the proper time, is exactly contrary. It would 

 give much trouble, in the operations of 

 ploughing and harrowing, to avoid a number 

 of new-planted young trees, which might be 



