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 young plants out of the ground, and in April following, 

 weed the beds of the Firs which have the iargell growth, 

 and plant them out in tlie following manner, which, 

 though diredly contrary to the opinion of all authors, 

 who have wrote upon the fubjed, has, with me, always 

 been attended with great fuccefs. I am not for planting 

 out the Vvhole of the feedlings at this time, but fuch only 

 as are very rampant in their growth. At two years old 

 your Firs mull be tranfplanted either into nurferies or in- 

 clofed grounds, where they are to remain. This laft 

 method I moft approve of. The manner of planting is: 

 In the month of ^Jprily when you intend to take out the 

 rampant growers from your beds, after taking them out, 

 put down the earth with your hand clofe by the roots of 

 thefe you leave in the beds ; and if you want to carry 

 them to any diftance, have fome paped earth by you, 

 that is, fome well wetted earth, and tie a layer of it 

 round the roots of your feedlings, which otherwife would 

 dry very faft. If you defign to make large plantations, 

 it will be neceflary to indole the ground with fail dykes, 

 to prevent the intrufion of cattle, winch may be croflcd 

 with other fail dykes at right angles, at every three or 

 four acres. If your ground is bare where you intend to 

 plant them, or if it has very fliort grafs upon it, you 

 have no more to do, but to make a flit with your fpade, 

 fet in your plant at the diflance of about tv/o or three feet, 

 and put the root ot the plant clofe to the ground. There 

 is little dant;,er of planting this tree too thick, for the 

 rank growers will deflroy fucii as do not thrive, and the 

 under branches lall off when they run high, whereby 

 they prune themldves, and fave you that trouble. If 

 Junipers, or any low growing plants are upon the ground, 

 or if the ground where you intend to plant them, is rank 

 with grafs, or tall growing whins, you muft plant your 

 feedlings in pits, at a little diftance from thele under 

 growths, left they iTiould be choaked or hurt by them; 

 and if you dtfign to plant Oak, Beech, or any other 

 trees amongft them, they fliould be planted at eight feet 

 diftance ; tor it is almoft incredible to think how faft Oaks 

 grow when planted among Firs. I have alfo planted, 

 with great fuccefi, a few of the Cedars of Lchanon a- 

 anongft Firs; hut this is not to be done, until the Firs 



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