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As to Scots firs, they fliould not be more than 

 two-year feedlings, one year tranfplanted ; in very 

 bare fandy grounds, they may even be introduced 

 when merely two-year old feed lings. Thefe can 

 be planted with the diamond dibble ; * and the cod 

 of planting an acre in this manner is but trifling. 



In the extenfion of a foreft on the fide of a 

 hill or mountain, by dividing it into zones or 

 belts, in the manner above ftated, fome degree of 

 artificial fhelter may likewife be produced. It is 

 bed, of courfe, to begin at the bottom of the hill 

 or deep ; the current of the wind being generally 

 ftronged at the top. When two hills nearly ap- 

 proach each other, and form a dell or deep ravine 

 between them, the wind, in fuch a cafe, pafies, as 

 if through a funnel, with very great force. It 

 would then, in this cafe, be proper to plant a 

 large mafs on either fide, in the eye of the wind. 

 Suppofing it to blow most, as it generally does in 

 this country, from the wedward, then fhould the 

 plantation be begun at that point. 



A more favourable fite, however, than either of 

 the preceding, for a foreft plantation, is a confi- 

 derable extent of broken ground, confifting of hill 

 and dale, of deeps and hollows, with the fides of 

 a river, or of a brook. Such grounds will be the 

 better for being rather of a north-eaderly expof- 



ure ; 



* Afterwards particularly described and figured. 



