LAYING LARCHES* 



muft be regulated by the fiz'e of the plants, and 

 the time they are intended to ftand. If they be 

 one-year feedlings, and fuch as are to be nurfed 

 only one year, nine or ten inches between the 

 lines is quite fufficient. If they are to ftand for 

 two years, twelve or fourteen is Jittle enough; 

 but in no cafe fhould the plants ftand too near 

 to .one another in the lines. It is better to make 

 the fpaces fmall between them, than to have the 

 plants crowded ia the lines. 



LAYING LARCHES. 



The foil moft fuitable to receive feedling 

 Larches, is fuch as is tender, and which has been 

 under green crops, with dung, the preceding fea- 

 ibn. It is quite wrong to attempt to plant larches 

 into land newly manured with frefh dung. How- 

 ever much better larches may thrive in rich land, 

 they are quite impatient of that which is freih 

 dunged. We have feen them die in great num- 

 bers from this caufe. The diftance at which 

 larches muft be laid, will depend on circum- 

 ftances, as in the cafe of the thorns. If they are 

 one-year feedlings to be nurfed one year, four 

 inches apart in the lines and twelve between the 

 lines will anfwer well. If the fame are intended 

 to ftand for two years, they fhould be five inches 

 apart ia the lines, and fifteen inches between the 



lines. 



