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with dung ; fuch as peas, beans, lettuces, turnip, 

 or the like. We have already (hown that a crop 

 of potatoes mould never immediately precede a 

 crop of feedlings. We have already dire&ed, 

 that land for fir feeds mould be digged or ridg- 

 ed up in the month of February, in order to 

 pulverize it the more perfectly. It muft now be 

 flatted down, and receive from fix to ten wheel- 

 barrows of well prepared dung to each fall. It 

 is then to be digged and raked, as direded in 

 February for fowing haws ; only, the foil for the 

 fir feed fliould be ftill finer made. Beds are the 

 only form to be ufed, either for the firs or the 

 larches. They mould be fown fo as to rife at the 

 diftance of a quarter of an inch from one another. 

 The covering mould be half an inch thick. The 

 manner of performing the work has been treated 

 of in February ; which fee. (p. 239). 



Sowing Larch Seeds. 



Larch fir feeds mould always follow a crop oi ; 

 two-year feedling Scots firs. No preparation of 

 the land can equal that of the roots of feedling 

 Scots firs. The ground on which larches mould 

 be put is fuch as was cleared of the crop of Scots 

 firs in September laft, and which has been wrought 

 feveral times during the winter. If land which 

 has been under Scots firs the preceding feafon 



i cannot 



