l6o FOREST PLANTATIONS. \Jail. 



trees, are to be met with, are overtopped by lefs 

 valuable kinds, or perhaps fuch, all things con- 

 Iidered, as hardly deferve a place. 



Thefe evils are remediable by planting with at- 

 tention to the foil, and in diftinft maflfes. In 

 thefe maffes are infured a full crop, by being pro- 

 perly nurfed, for a time, with kinds more hardy, 

 or which afford more fhelter than fuch hard-wood 

 plants. 



There is no rule by which to fix the fize or 

 extent of any of thefe mafies. Indeed, the more 

 various they be in this refpeft, the better they will, 

 when grown up, pleafe the eye of a perfon of 

 tafte. They may bs extended from one acre to 

 fifty, or an hundred acres, according to the cir- 

 cunrftances of foil and fituation : Their fhapes will 

 accordingly be as various as their dimenfions. 



The kind of nurfe moft decidedly fit for the 

 purpofe under confideration, is the Larch ; unlefs, 

 as mentioned before, the fite be expofed to the 

 fea air, or the plantation in queftion be the fhel- 

 tering zone of an infant foreft ; in either of 

 which cafes, the Scots Fir, the Elder, and the Sy- 

 camore, mould take place of it, or, at leaft, be 

 freely planted, as circumftances may direct. 



The diflances at which hard-timber trees ought 



to be planted, are from fix to ten feet , according 



to the quality of the foil, and the expofed or fhel- 



tered fituation, as noticed above. When the firft 



i four 



