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broad-cart over the whole of the back of the ditch, fo 

 that one-half may be cut whilft the other part remains 

 for {helter, by which means complete fhelter is never 

 wanted. In four or five years after fowing, the part 

 of the furze next the thorn-quicks is commonly cut, 

 which always gives the latter the afcendancy for the 

 time to come. A quart of found feed is fully fufficient 

 for thirty perches broad-caft, but confiderably lefs will 

 anfwer, when fown in a drill. 



In this place it may not be amifs to remark, that the 

 Scotch fir, ufually put out in clufters, as ftated in this 

 fection, is moft commonly planted in grounds of the 

 latter defcription, or thofe formerly occupied by far- 

 mers and labourers, as not being much fubject to 

 luxuriant weeds, or to fuch fpontaneous growths as 

 the former. 



3. Thin, wet, fpouty foils, in general much expofed. 

 To encreafe the depth of foils of this nature, and 

 alfo to drain and render them wholefome, for the re- 

 ception of plants, were the chief objects to attend to. 



From foils not more than three or four inches deep, 

 with a hard fubftratum, almoft impenetrable to water, 

 little could be expected. Draining was found of little 

 or no advantage to fuch foils ; in foinc mcafure it 

 ferved to carry off the redundancy of water, but very 

 little encreafed the depth of the furface. 



Recourfe, therefore, was had to another expedient, 

 which anfwered both ends, namely, draining, and 



deepening the foil. 



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