Jan.~\ TRENCHING, &C. 139 



fit plants, and a proper method of planting them, 

 may fecure the defired fuccefs. 



In many inftances, as in the cafe of rearing aa 

 immediate fcreen, a mafs, or a grove, placed in a 

 particular point of view, it may be advifable to 

 trench the ground ; in others, perhaps to plough 

 it. But for an ornamental plantation, or indeed 

 any which comes under the prefent head, it would 

 ill become the planter to content himfelf with the 

 fuperficial method of making pits only. If the 

 expenfe of trenching be thought too much, let 

 the plough be fubftituted wherever it is practi- 

 cable. Pitting ought only to be reforted to in 

 places where the furface is fteep, rocky, or fa 

 ftony as that the plough cannot be introduced. Oa 

 the fubject of pitting, therefore, we (hall here 

 be filent. The reader will find that fubjecl fully 

 treated of under the head of Forest Plantations 

 for May. 



To drain when neceffary, and to drain effec- 

 tually, are points of the firft importance in the 

 preparation of the foil for a plantation, whether it 

 is to be trenched or to be ploughed : it is as ne* 

 ceflary, and as proper, to drain for timber as for 

 wheat. The fpecies of drain mod generally ufeful 

 in a plantation, is an open or fky drain. The depth 

 ihould be according to that of the fprings, and 

 iituated fo as effectually to cut them off. Mafter 

 drains may often be conducted in fuch a manner 



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