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If by this month, in the firft year after pitting 

 or otherwife preparing, the foil be found well 

 parted and promifing, the Fir and Larch feeds 

 may be fown ; and this mould be done as nearly 

 after the manner directed in the Nurfery for the 

 fame kinds, as circumftances v/ill allow. After 

 fowing, a conftant watching will be neceflary un- 

 til the hufk be thrown off the rifirig plants ;' as, 

 until that time, many kinds of birds feem to think 

 them a delightful food, and continue to pull them 

 out of the ground. If the feeds are good, fix or 

 eight are fufficient for each pit. 



If it be propofed to fow a Fir or Larch plan- 

 tation after fallow, the ground mould be well 

 broken, and afterwards be fown in patches at the 

 diftance of three or four feet, as directed for fow- 

 ing Copfes lad month, 



SOWING FORESTS IN GENERAL. 



Although we have hitherto only mentioned the 

 fowing of a few forts of trees in the foreft, we 

 are decidedly of opinion (as elfewhere ftated) that 

 every kind of foreil tree will fucceed better by 

 being reared from feeds in the place where it is 

 to grow to maturity, than by being raifed in any 

 nuriery whatever, and from thence tranfplanted 

 into the toreft. There are fome kinds which, 

 even under the prefent mode of management, 



mould 



