Cultivation of Grafs Land.-^Plitntiag. TimlerTi\ ca t .$c. Go 



pofe, and moft forts of timber and other woods may be ralfcd in fuch firuntions 

 the oak, elm, poplar, willow, and ofier, according as they are more or lefs dry ; 

 but the preference mud depend on the local circumtlances of the different cafes. 



Situations near the fea-coaft, or what are called maritime filiations, are in ge 

 neral inimical to the growth of timber; but where fuch are attempted to be planted, 

 the beech and fycamore will be found to bear the fea breeze better then moft others, 

 and confequently become defirable as nurfes for the other trees. Jn thefe fi- 

 tuations, where the bank rifes high, the beft mode may be to plant in the face of it,, 

 confiderably within the level of the top, in order to afford a fcreen for the trees 

 within till they rife to a fufficient height : and where it is flat, to adopt the method 

 of planting in belts, beginning as clofe as pofiible to the edge of the water, and: 

 planting the firft rows very clofe, as about thirty inches diftance, employing (tout 

 well-rooted plants of not more than twelve or eighteen inches growth.* 



There are two different methods principally purfued by planters in providing 

 the trees : one is by railing the plants in a detached piece of ground, as a nurfcry,. 

 from the feed ; the other by purchafing the trees from the nurferies in the neigh 

 bourhood in the ftates proper for being planted out. The former is probably the 

 beft and moft economical plan, where the bufmefs of planting is to be conducted 

 upon an extenfive fcale, as it is moftly troublefome, and often impofiible, to pro 

 cure the quantity or forts of plants that are wanted at the proper fcafon. Befides,. 

 the plants in general fucceed better when they are put in as faft as they are re 

 moved. But for fmall concerns it is in moft cafes more advantageous and con 

 venient to obtain them from a nurfery,as they can never be raifed upon a fmall fcale 

 fo cheaply as they may be provided in this way. Wherever nurferies are attempt- 

 ed,the nature of the land fhould be tolerably good,as it is almoft impoflible to raifc 

 good plants on very poor foils. Different forts of land have been recommended: 

 for this purpofe ; but it is evident that no one kind can be fitted to the growth 

 of every fort of tree; yet fuch as are dry and friable, without being too light,, are 

 capable of railing healthy trees of moft kinds. A late writerf has recommended for 

 this purpofe &quot; a loam of middling texture, rather inclining to fand, neither rich: 

 nor poor, from eighteen to twenty-four inches in depth ; lying on a free, porous 

 fubftratum. This will be found more generally congenial to the nature of the dif 

 ferent foreft-trees than any other foil. But there is no general rule without excep 

 tion. If there be a diverlity of foils, and if they do not too nearly approach the 



* Nicoi on Planting, t Ibid* 



