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In planting, where it is performed on the more elevated or mountainous tradls, 

 warmth and flicker are to be confidered, as without thefe the trees feldom thrive 

 in a perfecl manner. In fuch fuuations there is, in general, the moft difficulty 

 and the leaft progrefs made in the railing of timber-.trees ; the fuccefs of the 

 planter depending greatly upon fixing on fuch forts of timber-trees as may in 

 future become the moft highly valuable, on planting thickly with plants of not too 

 large a fize, and on a confiderable plat or extent of ground both in length and 

 width being planted.* 



In thefe unfriendly fituations to the growth of trees, fmall plants mud confe- 

 quently be chofen and planted thick on the ground ; as the winds are very prejudi 

 cial to trees of a large rtatu re, by loofeningthe roots and frequently breaking the 

 fibres: but though this is the moft difadvantageous lituation for planting, it is pof- 

 fible, with proper care in the above refpects, to rear young timber in ir. Where 

 it is intended to cover a mountain from its bafe, it will be moft conveniently done 

 by planting round the bafe in the firft inftance, rifing gradually ; by which means 

 an artificial melter will be forming, from the progrefs that will be made by the 

 trees that were firft planted, efpecially if the extent is fuch as to require feveral Tea. 

 fons to complete the planting. The portion firft planted mould be pretty exten- 

 five, in all fuch cafes efpecially where melter is principally intended. 



The kinds of trees to be chofen for fuch fuuations muft be regulated, in a 

 great meafure, by the foil. The pine would perhaps be found to flourifli moft, 

 but the larch is preferable as a nurfe. The mountain-afti, the beech, the afh, 

 the fycamore, the birch, the fir, &c. may all be planted with reafonable hope of 

 fuccefs ; and where the foil is deepeft and richeft, the oak.f 



In low fheltered fituations, where the inconvenience of expcfure to the winds is 

 obviated, timber-trees may be planted with greater certainty of fuccefs ; the chief 

 care neceflary in this cafe being to fix on trees of a proper kind, and placing 

 them at proper diftances, according to their forts and fizes. As thefe fituations 

 admit of moft kinds, on the more fheltered parts, the oak, larch, elm, beech, 

 horfe-chefnut, walnut, lime, fpruce and filver fir, may be fuitable ; and on the 

 lefs (heltcred portions, the afh, birch, fycamore, hornbeam, mountain-afh, and, 

 jir, with a mixture of larch. 



The banks of rivers and canals are moftly favourable for the planter s pur- 



* Nicol on Planting, f Ibid. 



