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dily to feek pafturage in the foil, or rendering 

 them lefs liable to be injured by parching drought. 

 For it frequently happens, that if the foil is moift 

 at the time of planting, in the former cafe the gafh 

 feems to be clofed at top, while, in fad it remains 

 open ; which is mown by the firft fuccecding 

 drought, and, if not clofed, by the confequent 

 languimment and death of the plant. 



On very deep hangs which have been pitted, 

 the following rule ought to be obferved in plant- 

 ing : To place the plant in the angle formed by 

 the acclivity and surface of the pit ; and, in finim- 

 ing, to raife the outer margin of the pit higheit, 

 whereby the plant will be made to (land as if on 

 level ground, and the moifture be retained in the 

 hollow of the angle, evidently to its advantage. 



In proceeding to defcribe the method by flit, or 

 the T method, as it is commonly termed, we muft 

 declare, that we are not advocates for this method 

 of planting, where a better can be purfued. Ne- 

 verthelefs, we would rather fee bleak, barren 

 moors planted by the flit, or indeed in any way, 

 than fee them lying in a flare of nature, yielding 

 nothing to the proprietor, and confequently a void 

 in refpecl: to the nation. We would not recom- 

 mend planting by the flit, unlefs where there is 

 no more foil than is abfolutely occupied by the 

 fibres of the herbage which grows on the place. 

 Excepting on turf, it cannot be performed ; nor 



fhould 



