Jan.~\ PLANTING. 157 



The Larch, if properly treated, will be very fit 

 at two years of age, A healthy feedling being 

 removed from the feed-bed at the end of tht firft 

 year, into good ground, will, by the end of the 

 fecond, be a fitter plant for the foreft, than one 

 nurfed a fecond year. The next beft plant for the 

 purpofe, is that which has flood two years in the 

 feed- bed, and has been tranfplanted for one feafon. 

 This is fuppofmg it to have rifen a weakly plant ; 

 for, if the Larch rife ftrong from the feed the firft 

 feafon, it mould never Hand a fecond in the feed- 

 bed. 



' The Am, the Elm, and the Sycamore, one year 

 from the feed, if well raifed, being nurfed in good 

 foil for a fecond feafon, will often prove fufficient- 

 ly flrong plants for the purpofe here in view. If 

 they be weakly, they may (land two years in the 

 feed-bed ; and then being nurfed one feafon in 

 good foil, would be very fit for planting out in 

 the foreft. 



The Oak, the Beech, and the Chefnut, if raifed 

 in rich foil, and well furnimed with roots at the 

 end of the firft year, being nurfed in rows for 

 two years, would be very fit to be planted out, 

 But if they be allowed to ftand for two years in the 

 feed-bed, and be planted for one year in good ground, 

 they will be ftill better for the foreft, and the roots 

 will be found well feathered with fine fmall fibres. 



The Silver Fir, and common Spruce, mould 

 ftand two years in the feed-bed. If tranfplanted 



into 



