WOODS AND COPSES. 



PLANTING MIXED COPSES. 



If the ground under fummer-fallow, intended 

 to be planted as a mixed copfe, be naturally dry, 

 and if the ftate of the weather will allow, it may 

 now receive a finifhing furrow to prepare it for 

 immediate planting. 



The pits on the other grounds, prepared for the 

 fame purpofe, mould now be examined, to fee whe- 

 ther they be in a proper ftate to receive the plants j 

 probably fuch as are fituated on elevated places, 

 and floping dry grounds, or fuch as are made m 

 light fandy foils, may now be in a fit condition to 

 receive the intended occupiers ; and if fo, the o- 

 perations of planting may be forthwith performed 

 in fuch places. Other portions of the intended 

 copfe ground, fituated more in hollows and por- 

 tions perhaps of a clayey or retentive foil, mould 

 be. left till a more advanced period of the feafon. 

 Much, indeed, of the fuccefs of the planter de- 

 pends on his rightly choofmg the feafons, for in- 

 troducing his plants into the various foils. A dry 

 hill may, with the utmoft propriety, be planted 

 juft now ; while a bog, a moid hollow, or reten- 

 tive clay, ought not to be planted, it may be, for 

 two or three months to come. There is therefore 

 very great danger in employing an unfkilful ope- 

 rator, and efpecially in bargaining for the ground 



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