FOREST PLANTATIONS. 265 



FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



IN the preceding month, when contemplating 

 an extenfive plantation, confiding of a variety of 

 foils and fituations, as hills, dales, and the like, 

 we flrongly recommended the massing fyftem; be- 

 caufe we thus have it in our power more perfectly 

 to adapt each kind to its own natural foil, and 

 thereby lay a better foundation for health and vi- 

 gour in the plants, and confequently fecure far 

 better timber in a morter time, than can be pro- 

 cured by the ordinary mixing plan. 



Lad month we recommended the planting of 

 dry portions only ; by this time a confiderably 

 greater quantity of the land will be in a fit ftatc 

 for being planted, efpecially fuch parts as are mod 

 likely to be adapted for mafles of Elm, Aih, Syca- 

 more, Beech, Spanifh Chefnut, and Larch ; the 

 other portions of the grounds more clayey or 

 damp, may lye off for the reception of the Oak, 

 the Birch, the Poplar, and the Willow. Early 

 planting, on elevated, dry fituations, which are 

 much expofed to parching droughts, is the furefl 

 means of fecuring the growth of the plants. In 

 this climate, and particularly in Scotland, we can 

 depend with certainty on having abundant rains, at 



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