APPENDIX. 35, 



ib long as it finds air, it will get forward, and caufe 

 the lower parts of the young plants to become naked j 

 fo that the true way is never to fuffer the fpontaneous 

 plants to get a-head in the clofets ; and the margins,, 

 left for flielter, may be taken away by little and little, 

 as the young trees can afford. The nearer the Scotch 

 fir are planted to each other, the fooner the native 

 plants will difappear ; but it is better economy to put 

 in plenty of valuable timber at the beginning, than to 

 depend wholly on Scotch fir, or any other fpecies of 

 pine, except the larch, fince, in time, they make but a 

 poor figure and return, in point of profit, when com- 

 pared to others. 



I believe it is fcarcely necefTary to obferve, that, in 

 thofe and all other expofed fituations, without plant- 

 ing very young, there could be no chance of fuccefs. 

 Oak, beech, birch, hornbeam, fycamore, &c. never ex- 

 ceed four years, being generally two years transplanted. 

 Scotch fir and larch are commonly put out for good at 

 three years, in which cafe they are put into nurfery at 

 one year old ; but this fyfkm is only confined to the 

 very expofed fituations. 



Now that I am treating of expofed fituations, I fhall 

 mention a circumftance of fome importance, which 

 occurred a few years ago, and which was the ef- 

 fect of chance, rather than of premeditated fpecu- 

 lation. 



Some 



