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FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



MOST probably by the end of this month the 

 whole grounds in any plantation will require to be 

 planted. If, however, in any place the land is 

 over damp, it is better ftill to put off the planting 

 until the pits, or otherwife prepared land, be fuf- 

 ficiently dry for the reception of the plants. It 

 is very hurtful to plants to be put into (landing 

 water : Even the aquatic plants themfelves, fuch 

 as the Alder, Birch, Willow, or the Poplar, when 

 put into pits with water in them, have their 

 roots ferioufly injured, or what nurferymen call 

 scalded, by (landing only for a week or two in 

 fuch a flate. Grounds low in their fituation, 

 or foils of a retentive nature, may not therefore 

 be in a fit flate for planting for fome time to come. 

 Firs mud not yet be planted, excepting, as former- 

 ly obferved, on elevated dry fpots, which are liable 

 to be hurt by the fevere droughts of May and 

 June. In the early part of April, or indeed, in 

 fome cafes, in May, firs will fucceed better than if 

 Wanted DQ\\\ 



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