The Gardener's New Director. 445 



the trees that have been cut down upon the appearance 

 of the failure of their growth, and which have after- 

 wards fprung from the root with great vigour ; and no- 

 thing is more conducive to recover trees, whole ilems 

 have fuffered by froll, or any other accident, than to cut 

 them down in the manner above prelcribed. 



Before I enter into a detail of the culture of particu- 

 lar trees, permit me to make a few necefl'ary remarks on 

 the culture of fome, and the beft method of fowing 

 them. The Oak and the Beech may be fown in places 

 quite uncultivated, with fuccefs; the Oak particularly. 

 The Beech delights in a light foil ; for if it is fown in 

 clay, or vihere the ground is very (lifF, the feeds cannot 

 germinate, and very frequently it fends up its root 

 above the young flems, which lofes them altogether. 

 But the Oak may be fown almofl in any foil, having 

 ftrength enough to fend down its root any where; but 

 mofl: other treei fhouid be fow n in nurleries, from whence 

 they may be tranfplanled out for good, when they are 

 two or three years old. 



You mufl (hun as much as pofTible to plant Oaks in 

 the neighbourhood of Pines, Firs, or Beech, or of any 

 other trees which thruft their roots deep into the ground; 

 but you may plant them to advantage near any trees 

 which fpread their roots, and do not run far below the 

 furface. You mull likewife obferve, never to fow woods, 

 but in thofe feafons when the feeds of trees are very plen- 

 tiful, and are fully ripened, and then take a particular 

 care that birds, field-mice, and other vermin, do not 

 attack them ; for which you muft fet traps on all occa- 

 fions, which is the moft efFedual method to ddlroy 

 them. You muft be no lefs careful to prevent the intru- 

 fion of cattle into your nurferies, or your woods, by 

 plantmg hedges of Tliorn, Poplar, &c. or dead wood 

 hedges. But the beft method of any to protect them 

 from the inupiion of cattle, is by making ditches, fac- 

 ing them up with ftore, and upon (he top tliertuf plant- 

 ing thorn hedges, intcrmixcd*here and there with fomc 

 Hollies, which will ftill be a greater fccurity to wlut is 

 planted or fown within. 



1 proceed now to the culture of p.nticulir ii\i.s, and 

 betiin as followJ. 



^ The 



