WOODS AND COPSE . [Jan. 



out dung. If, however, it were judged necerTary, 

 potatoes with a little dung might follow the let- 

 tuce, which would put the ground in fine ftate to 

 receive the grafs feeds in the fifth feafon. 



It is certainly the moft advifable method to 

 dung the firft feafon ; becaufe the acorns thus re- 

 ceive fuch powerful encouragement, that the pro* 

 grefs of the plants is generally fecured. The moft 

 proper manure, perhaps, is ftable dung, well re- 

 duced : it may, however, be of different quali- 

 ties, according to the nature of the foil. 



If the ground has been under a grain crop the 

 preceding feafon, it will require no other treat- 

 ment at this time than what is recommended a* 

 bove for land under fuch circumftances. It is 

 underflood that the ground, at the laft ploughing 

 which it received, probably in October or No- 

 vember, has been laid up in ridges of fuch breadth 

 and pofition as were bed calculated to keep the 

 ground dry. There can be no greater error than 

 allowing the land to sour, from retaining water 

 on the furface during the winter months. It is 

 therefore a neceffary work, to let off all stagnant 

 water from intended copfe-wood land, and to 

 keep the land during the winter months as dry as 

 poflible. 



It is hardly neceflary to obferve here, after what 

 has been faid on the fubjecl:, under the head Or- 

 nantental Plantations for this month, that the 



ground 



