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SECTION X. 



TREATMENT OF THE TREES SUBSEQUENTLY TO 

 REMOVAL. 



It is with the removal of large trees, as with the execu- 

 tion of ordinary plantations. As soon as the plants are 

 fairly put into the ground, the planter usually conceives his 

 labour to be at an end, and that all after-cultivation is super- 

 erogatory or superfluous. This, although a common, is a 

 very pernicious error, and is not less injurious in its effects, 

 in the one case than in the other. Perhaps there is nothing 

 in the course of this Treatise, that is calculated to be more in- 

 teresting, or more practically useful to the young planter, 

 than what is to be stated respecting Afterwork, in the few 

 following pages. 



In the foregoing three Sections, the Preparing and Taking- 

 up, the Transportation and Planting have been treated as 

 applicable, first, to Single Trees, and Open Dispositions of 

 Wood ; and secondly, to Close Plantations ; therefore, in 

 pointing out the Afterwork, the same order shall be followed, 

 beginning, as before, with the former department. 



First, as to Open Dispositions of Wood. In the end of 

 April, or beginning of May, as soon as the removal of the 

 last trees of the year (usually the lime, the horse chestnut, 

 and the oak) is over, is then the time to examine the whole, 

 and see how they stand as to covering for the roots. For 

 that purpose, after trying various substances, 1 have found 

 nothing so completely efficacious as the refuse of a flaxmill, 



