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they were fuffcred to remain for another feafon, when 

 they were put out for good in cluflers, without any at- 

 tempt to feparate them. 



The confequence of this fpecies of planting was, that 

 in three years it made a fuller figure in expofed fitua- 

 tions, than planting in the common way had done in 

 five feafons. In fuch fituations what we want is, to 

 cover the furface as foon as poflible, and, of courfe, 

 create ihelter, and for both this method is extremely 

 well calculated. It is idle to imagine, that we fhould 

 debar ourfelves from timber in future by following 

 this plan -, every experienced planter knows, that, if a 

 feed-bed of any fort was fufFered to go on its own 

 way, a fufficient number of plants would furvive, and 

 kill all the reft ; and in the prefent inftance this is fully 

 demonflrated, fince only one ftem can now be traced 

 from thofe clufters, which were firft planted out here, 

 being only fix years prior to the prefent year (1802).* 

 . Since the above difcovery, this practice has been 

 continued here, but is principally confined to Scotch 

 fir, that being the beft calculated for expofed fituations. 



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* This mode has an advantage over the common one, in- 

 afmuch as the wind has little or no power of dtfturbing the 

 plants, they being balanced from the furface for feveral years. 

 The writer never experienced an inftance of any of this cluftcr- 

 planting (a name which he has adopted) ever yielding to 

 ftorms, whereas thoufands give way every feafon when put 

 out in the common way, and, in high moid fituations, are per- 

 petually loofening by ftorms. 



