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in hard dry ground, provided the holes 

 were made early and had fome rain. 



IT is the nature of the Fir to pufh roots 



immediately after they are planted, if the 



weather is free from frofr. for fome time. 



It will be a great advantage to trees of any 



kind to be well fettled on dry grounds 



before winter, but there is none of them 



that get frefh roots but the Fir kinds. 



Firs may be planted to the end of April, 



but at that feafon they (hould not be long 



,out c-f the ground. 



WHERE there are large plantations of 



Scotch Firs that come to maturity, they 



H)cai feed in great plenty when about thirty 



years old. If there is any wafte ground 



joining the Fir wood that is covered with 



.heath four or five inches long, if it was 



iiiclofed, and kept from cattle and Iheep, 



in a few years it would be very full of 



.fine young plants, and will ferve for a 



nurfery for feveral years, and flill there 



.may be fufficient trees left to grow into a 



wood. 



