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larch plants rises up to cover the rocks, or afford 

 shelter, put in plants on the rocks alternately, above 

 them ; observe also, that the plants already into the 

 hollows that are in a thriving state, may be allowed 

 to come on ; but by all means fill up with larch firs 

 amongst these also, as they will most effectually en- 

 rich and make an excellent soil, and the expense of 

 the larch plants is a mere trifle. After the larch 

 firs have come up to cover all the bare rocks, &c. 

 and the hard-wood plants put in for the first time, the 

 second cutting of the larch firs out must not take 

 place till the hard-wood trees have been once cut 

 over, and the new growths coming up, as has before 

 been observed ; this is both a sure, simple, and cheap, 

 method of obtaining planting on such places. There 

 is, however, another plan, equally sure and much more 

 speedy, as it will give almost the immediate effect or 

 show of a plantation, even on these bare rocks ; 

 and is attended with no very considerable expense : 

 that is, to remove from a new cut coppice, or under- 

 wood, stools, or roots of oak, or any other tree that 

 grows from cutting, when newly cut over, and pro- 

 perly dressed up for the growth, and place these 

 down upon the rocks, being careful in lifting them, 

 with as much earth about the roots as possible ; and 

 if there is the least crevice or chink in the rock 

 where it is placed, the young fibres or roots find 

 them out, and they never go back. I have seen 

 growths, from stools removed, and placed on bare 

 rocks of this kind, from eighteen inches to three feet 

 long, in one season, and never went back. The 

 stools or roots of trees of any size will do, provided 

 they are healthy ; but the most portable and easily 

 removed, are young trees from four to eight inches 



