Cultivation of Grafs Land. Planting. Timber-Tree** Se/fhig, c. tfi;i 



This fhould invariably be thepraclice. Where only one or two forts of trees are 

 howevpr to be planted, the ufual practice of carrying the plants along as the plant 

 ing proceeds may be the mod convenient method. 



The operation of planting is the beft and mo ft expeditioufly performed by two 

 perfons; a man to do the work, and a boy to hold the plants. In performing 

 the bufinefs, the labourer fir ft ftirs the mould well in the holes or pits that have 

 been previoufiy prepared, rendering it level, and fit for the reception of the plant ; 

 form new holes according to the mode of planting. The boy then places the 

 plant in the hole with all the fibres of its roots regularly fpread out and unconfined, 

 to the depth of about an inch more than it had ftood in the nurfery, holding it 

 perfectly upright ; while the man gently fills in the loofe mould, moving the tree a 

 little up and down to let it mix with the roots : the remainder of the earth is 

 afterwards put in j and then the labourer proceeds to the preparation of the next 

 hole, leaving the boy to fet the plant erect and clofe the mould about it, which 

 in foils of the ftiffer fort fhould be only performed in a light manner, but in thofc 

 of the drier kinds, as the fandy and gravelly, as clofe as poflible. In this way the 

 work is to proceed till the whole is finimed. There are other methods of planting, 

 as by forming flits, nicks, or openings of other kinds, fo as juft to fqueeze in the 

 roots of the plants : but thefe never fucceed well. 



Much of the fuccefs of the planter depends upon having this part of the work 

 well executed ; but great care fhould be taken, particularly where the land is in 

 clined to moifture, or of a retentive quality, not to plant at too great a depth. In 

 planting on ftecps, it is directed that the trees mould be placed towards the declivity, 

 being planted at the loweft part of the opening ; which mould, in complet 

 ing the bufinefs, be left the higheft, by which the moifture may be better pre 

 fer ved. 



It feems not improbable but that in many cafes and fituations the planting of 

 fmall trees of the timber kind might be performed with great convenience and ex 

 pedition by the afiiftance of a plough fujtable for thepurpofe, as has been fome- 

 times pradifed infetting hedge-plants. 



In the planting of trees of confiderable growth great attention is neceflary to 

 have them well fecured againft the wind, as, when they become loofe, the fibres 

 are fo broken and deftroyed that they foon die. This has been commonly effected 

 by means of ftaking : but as in this way the^ trees are often in danger of being 



