Jan.'] 



PREPARING GROUND. 



able as (bettering nurfes for the young oaks ; and 

 in places where wood for coal mines, and fimilar 

 purpofes, is required, Scots firs are of nearly equal 

 Value with the larch. We have mentioned two 

 or three years after planting as the time for fow- 

 ing the acorns ; but, if the trees have made but 

 fmall progrefs, the fowing may be deferred till 

 the fourth, or, if need be, even to the fifth year 

 after planting the firs or larches. 



It will be obferved, that we have here advifed 

 the fowing of the acorns at much fmaller diftan- 

 ces from each other, than we have recommended 

 in treating of planting oaks, under the head Forest 

 Plantations for thig month. The reafon is obvi- 

 ous. Thofe at prefent under confideration, are 

 intended for copfes, in the firfl inftance, after the 

 removal of the nurfes : thefe copfes may, by pro- 

 per management, be converted into oak woods 

 afterwards, as pleaiure or intereft may direct. 



OF MIXED COPSES. PREPARATION OF THE 

 GROUND. 



If it is intended to plant the mixed copfe, any 

 neceffity of enlarging on the preparation of the 

 ground, is in a great meafure fuperfeded by what 

 we have faid above, refpecting the preparing for 

 oak woods and copfes. Indeed, the nature of this 

 crop is not fo far removed from that f the pre- 

 Jtf ceding^ 



