a-6'2 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. [Fel). 



SIZES OF PLANTS. 



The fizes and ages of the plants to be ufed muft 

 .be regulated by the nature and expofure of the 

 land, its mode of preparation, and the like. For 

 trenched, fallowed, digged, or pitted ground, as 

 previoufly obferved under the article Forest Plan- 

 fat ions for laft month, they mould not exceed 

 eighteen inches, or from a foot to eighteen inches 

 in height. Nurfes of larches or Scots firs, which 

 are to be slitted in, mould be fmall plants one year 

 nurfed. In a piece of trenched land, however, 

 which is rich and very well flickered, plants of a 

 larger fize, which have been properly prepared in 

 the nurfery, may be planted. Plants of from 

 three to four feet in height, provided they have 

 good roots, with numerous fibres, will fuccecd 

 well under circumftances like the preceding. 



We have even mentioned plants for hedge-row 

 and detached trees, in the park and in the lawn, 

 of from four to eight, or ten feet in height ; but 

 the expenfe of preparing thefe in the nurfery, of 

 removing and planting them, is a fufficient argu- 

 ment, were there no other, againft their general 

 ufe : But when we know from experience, that 

 fuch feldom or never make fo vigorous trees as 

 thofe that are tranfplanted at an earlier perioc}, 

 the preference is juftly given to young plants. 



PLANTING 



