82 ON PLANTING 



is planting on poor land, on which it is 

 very certain a wood may be railed both by 

 planting and lowing ; but it would be an 

 odd attempt to make a nurfery to tranf- 

 plant from on fuch ground. The feeds, 

 when fown in fuch places, find nourifh- 

 ment for their fmall roots to fupply their 

 little heads, whofe progrefs is flow until 

 they gather ftrength, and when they get to 

 three and four feet high, their own warm- 

 nefs makes them grow fafter than could be 

 expected ; and in the holes that are fown, 

 the plants that are to fpare in them are 

 not fit for planting in fuoh ground ; they 

 have little heads and fmall fibrous tufty 

 roots, and would be all thrown out of the 

 ground in winter, at leaft fo loofened as 

 never to make a tree. 



IF, an animal was to be only half fed, 

 from its firft having life, for one year, I 

 believe that fuch an animal uould never 

 grow to be of a largo lizc of its kind, if 

 afterwards it was put into better keeping; 

 but fuppofe it was put to harder fare ; I 



believe 



