FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



OF PLANTING. 



IF the fcale be exterfive, and fuppofmg the 

 ground to have been prepared as directed in the 

 fummer months, and if the weather be open and 

 dry, this is a fit time to plant. In an extenfive 

 plantation, it will hardly happen but there will 

 be a variety of foil, fome parts moid and heavy, 

 and others dry and light. The lighted parts may 

 be planted at this time ; and the more moid, or 

 damp parts, next month, or in March. It mud 

 be obferved, howtver, that if the ground be not 

 in a proper cafe for planting, the operation had bet- 

 ter be delayed. The plants will be injured, either 

 by being committed to the ground when it is in a 

 four and wet, or in a dry parched date. At a 

 time when the foil may be termed neither wet nor 

 dry, the operation of planting is mod fuccefsfully 

 performed. The mould does not then adhere to 

 the fpade, nor does it run in ; it divides well, 

 and is made to intermingle with the fibres of the 

 plants with little trouble ; and in treading and 

 fetting the plant upright, the foil is not worked 

 into mortar, which it neceffanly mud be, if in a 



Wet 



