62 ON PLANTING 



which is one principal objection for not 

 fowing all the poor land inftead of plant- 

 ing; for fown feeds grow mueh better 

 than planted trees, efpecially the larger 

 forts. 



THE befl feafon for fowing all kinds of 

 Acorns, Beech-matt, Chefhuts, &c. would 

 be the autumn, as foon as they are quite 

 dry, were it not that they have to lay all 

 winter in the ground before they vegetate ^ 

 and the mice, who are very dextrous in 

 finding them, will often deftroy a great 

 part of them ; and frequently what they 

 do not eat they will collect from 1 different 

 places into holes of their own making, 

 leaving many places in the field without a 

 feed, as I have often found to my great 

 difappointment. 



To prevent as much as poffible thefe 

 inconveniencies, the prepared feeds, with 

 equal fuccefs, are fown late in the fpring, 

 and are a very little time in the ground 

 before they come up, and after they have 



begun 



