tf)6 FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



BEETING UP PLANTATIONS. 



This is now the proper feafon for this work. 

 Beeting, however, is fubject to feveral reftriftions. 

 A foreft plantation after pitting, either in the 

 mafs form, or ordinary mixture, mould remain fe- 

 veral years after planting, before any beeting of 

 the apparently dead hard-ivood plants takes place. 

 Hard- wood plants, in the firft year, and even 

 fometimes in the fecond year after planting, die 

 down quite to the furface of the ground, and are 

 apparently dead, while their roots, and the wood 

 immediately above them, are quite frefh, and ca- 

 pable of producing very vigorous moots, which they 

 frequently do produce, if allowed to (land in their 

 places. If a tree, fuch as that above alluded to, be 

 taken out the firft or the fecond year after planting, 

 and the place filled up with a frefh plant of the 

 fame kind, what happened to the former may 

 probably happen to the latter ; and fo the period 

 of raifing a plant on the fpot may be protracted to 

 a great length of time ; or it is poffible this object 

 may never be gained. 



The beeting of the hard-wood kinds, in a plan- 

 tation which has been planted after trenching, or 

 fummer fallow which has been kept clean by the 

 hoe, may be done with fafety at an earlier period 

 than under the foregoing circumftances j becaufe 



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