7 



MINUTES 



Nov. 



36. 



TAPPING 

 OAKLINGS. 



whereas by taking them up' and removing them 

 into a frefh fituation, they are feveral days be r 

 fore they begin to work ; in which time the 

 plant may receive irrecoverable injury. 



A feed-bed of oaklings, five years old, 

 I treated in this manner : In March-April tap- 

 ped them all with common fpades, ground 

 Jharp; pruned fuch as were in any degree 

 Straight ; and headed down the reft near the 

 ground, to throw out; ftraight fhoots to be 

 trained. 



Not a plant I fee is dead. 



Had there been more of them cut down, 

 the effect would have been flill better. 



37- 



PLANTING. NOVEMBER 25. A ftriking inftance of fuc< 



cefs in tranfylanting large oaks for flandards oc- 

 curs on Gunton Ccmmon. Scarcely a plant, of 

 fome thoufands, has milcarried, and very few 

 which do not flourim. 



A pcrfon who had fome fhare in the bufinefs 

 of this plantation tells me, that it was the em- 

 ployment of two men and a couple of horfes, 

 almoft all the firft fummer after they were 

 planted, to water them ; not by a pailfull, 

 but by a hogfnead, at once ; which ferved for 

 rhe fummer. 



