Jan.~] TRENCHING, &C. 145 



With refped to the diftance at which hedge- 

 row trees Ihould be planted, we think twenty feet, 

 in the firft inftance, near enough. When they 

 are half grown, they may be thinned out alter- 

 nately, and would then ftand at forty feet apart. 

 If the fence by which they are planted be a wall,* 

 they may be fet at fifteen feet apart, or even 

 nearer ; as, in that cafe, they could not injure 

 the fence. 



OF PLANTING ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS, 



In very few inftances will the grounds to be 

 planted, be at this feafon in a ftate for receiving 

 the plants : planting, when the land is in an im- 

 proper ftate for it, is fure to entail deftru&ion on 

 the plants. If, however, any of the ground be 

 dry enough, young trees may now be planted, 

 both in the grove, the mafs, the ftripe, and in the 



hedge- 



* If it be a fruit wall, however, care must be taken not 

 to plant the forest trees too near to it ; because their roots 

 will rob the fruit trees of their nourishment, and probably 

 kill them entirely. Many instances of the baneful effects 

 of forest trees being allowed too near fruit walls, might be 

 adduced ; but this is not the proper place for such a dis- 

 cussion. Forest trees should never stand nearer a fruit 

 wall than forty feet ; and more especially if they be ash 

 trees, which should not be nearer than a hundred feet, 



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