Feb.'] PLANTING NARROW STRIPES, &C. 26? 



There is not the leaft occafion, as elfewhere 

 fhown, to pit the ground intended for mattes of 

 Larches. Plants of the above age and nurfing, 

 planted after preparation with the mattock, will 

 be found to outgrow larger plants planted after 

 pitting. 



PLANTING NARROW STRIPES OF FOREST TREES. 



Although we are decidedly againft the planting 

 of narrow ftripes of Foreft Trees, they are in 

 many cafes indifpenfable. Round a fmall park, 

 in the neighbourhood of a town, where it is re- 

 quired to cover a variety of difagreeable objects ; 

 or on the boundaries of a fmall eftate, perhaps 

 from fifty to a hundred acres, which is in a high 

 ilate of cultivation, they are very neceifary. Thefe 

 ftripes mould, however, if poffible, never be nar- 

 rower than twenty-five or thirty feet. It would 

 be prepofterous, in this cafe, to attempt massing. 

 Small groups, however, according to the circum- 

 ftances of foil, or fituation, may be planted. But 

 it would be advifable to choofe a good proportion 

 of the principals of fuch plantations, of the forts 

 which are known to arrive at greateft perfection 

 in expofed fituations ; fuch as the Sycamore, the 

 Beech, the Mountain-Am, the Afh and the lm. 

 Further, ftripes of the above defcription fhould 



never 



