ON WASTE LANDS. 13 



IF the furface be coarfe, benty grafs or 

 fliort heath, \vhich is often the cafe in 

 flich poor land, pare it off with the hoe 

 as thin as poffible, and throw it away. 

 The paring fpade mould not be ufed, as 

 it takes too much of the (canty foil : for 

 in flich dry ground any thing that is light 

 keeps it open, and is of very bad confe- 

 queiice by making the ground lighter 

 and drier. 



THE holes being laid in this pofition, 

 will be in good condition to plant after 

 the firft autumn rains, for moft kinds of 

 deciduous trees. They mould be planted 

 as foon as the leaf is decayed. They may 

 be planted in open weather the begin- 

 ning of winter, but never in the fpring 

 on fuch dry ground. 



OAK and larch are an exception to the 

 general rule ; for although they are deci- 

 duous plants, their proper time of plant- 

 ing is late in fpring. 



OAK 



