54 ON PLANTING 



THOSE that ftand fo will grow, but 

 their being raifed fo retards their growth 

 much, and they look red and moot little 

 until their roots have got hold, which will 

 not be for a year or two. A little foft 

 mofs fpread over the holes when they are 

 fown is of great ufe to prevent the froft's 

 penetrating the ground below the feed- 

 ling's roots ; but that is attended with 

 fome inconveniency, for it muft be at leaft 

 an inch thick, or it will be of no fervice ; 

 and then it encourages grubs and other 

 vermin to lodge utider it, and they very 

 often deftroy the young plants as they 

 come out of the ground. The heft method 

 for all the Fir kinds is to fow them and 

 plant them from the feed-bed. 



THE compoft for the feed-beds, and the 

 method of fo wing and managing them, fo 

 as to make them fit for planting out the 

 firft year, will be fully explained under 

 the article of fowing all kinds of tree- 

 feeds. 



