April. SOWING OF FIRS OR LARCHES. 345 



SOWING ACORNS. 



In foreft plantations, where it is intended to 

 rear oaks from feeds, and where the nurfes are in 

 a proper flage of growth for their introduction, 

 this is now a proper feafon for fowing the acorns. 

 The nurfes being already planted, the pits for the 

 reception of the acorns will be in waiting. The 

 pits mould be ftirred or digged over immediately 

 before the acorns are inferted. Three acorns 

 are fufEcient in a pit of fourteen inches dia- 

 meter. They mould be fo placed as to form an 

 equilateral triangle, whofe angles are four inches 

 within the edges of the pit, and two inches deep. 

 The diftance of the pits has already been deter- 

 mined at the pitting feafon, May. 



SOWING OF FORESTS OF FIRS OR LARCHES. 



Sowing the feeds of thefe kinds, or indeed of 

 any kind, in the fpot where they are to remain, 

 is undoubtedly the fureft means of producing 

 them in the greateft perfection. 



Nature has taught us, by the example of her 

 forefts, that trees fown in the lands where they 

 are to grow to maturity, never fail to make the 

 beft timber trees, provided the foil and fituation 

 be congenial to them. But before me extend the 



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