76 ON PLANTING 



PREPARE fome beds of good earth, and! 

 add to them a large quantity of fand ; let 

 them be well worked over three or four 

 times, fo that the mould and fand be well 

 mixed a foot deep at leafV. It would be 

 befl to do this in the beginning of winter ; 

 and let them lay all the winter in fmall 

 ridges, that the froft may mellow them, and 

 that the fand and the mould may be well 

 incorporated. Early in the fpring dig them 

 over and lay them flat; then, juft before 

 you intend to fow them, dig them over 

 again. This feerns a great deal of labour, 

 but the fuccefs of the plantations, planted 

 from trees here raifed, will make it all well 

 ^eflowed. 



AT the fame time there mould be a 

 good heap of the fame fort of mould and 

 land that the beds are made of, as near as 

 can be to them ; and, if it can be had, a 

 third part of black mould^ from old woods, 

 where (licks and leaves have rotted for 

 fome time, which mould be all well 

 mixed, and turned over feveral times tq 

 mellow. 



