FOREST PLANTATIONS. [MdrcJt, 



Introduction of probably two or three plants, from 

 a foot to three feet in height, at a particular de- 

 ficient place, can never, in the above circumftan- 

 ccs, be attended with any advantage. Such plants 

 may indeed become buftes, and may anfwer well 

 enough in the chara&er of underwood, but they 

 will for ever remain unfit for any other purpofe. 



It is highly improper, then, to commence the 

 beeting of hard- wood plantations before the third 

 year after planting ; or to protraft it beyond the 

 fifth or the fixth. 



We have mentioned, above, the impropriety of 

 planting young plants among large trees ; never- 

 ihelefs, we would not be underftood as difluading 

 from planting, even in grown woods, a vacant 

 fpace, of fome falls in extent. Where fuch fpace^ 

 happen to occur, they may and ought to be plant- 

 ed up, even when furrounded with trees of fifteen 

 or twenty feet in height. 



When trees in an old plantation have been fell- 

 ed, fo as to leave vacancies of a half or a whole 

 acre, fuch may be replanted with great propriety. 

 It may however be obferved, that there ought to 

 be as great a difference between the natures of the 

 former and intended occupiers, as the foil will 

 poffibly admit., If, for inftance, the trees remov- 

 ed were Scots Fir ; perhaps Oaks, Elms, or Afh 

 may follow; along with nurfes of Willow, Elder 

 -,r Mountain- Afh, or a mixture of thefe. 



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