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jfhould always be fown, namely, the Oak, the 

 Spanifh Chefnut, the Walnut, the Stone Pine, the 

 Laburnum, and the Pinafter ; and to thefe may 

 be added the Beech. The firft roots of all thefe, 

 as is well known, are peculiarly ftrong, and far 

 extended. Nature feems to have exprefied, by 

 this intelligent language, the abfolute propriety 

 of their remaining in the identical fpot where they 

 have firft taken root. Whenever, therefore, thefe 

 forts are intended to be raifed, the ground fliould 

 be pitted and prepared for receiving the feeds \ 

 and it ihould be flickered by proper nurfes, as 

 flated in the directions for fowing Acorns in the 

 foreft. 



THINNING OUT SOWN FORESTS. 



We have already mentioned the thinning out 

 of the fown patches in woods and copfes for lafl 

 month ; and as the directions there given, equally 

 apply to the prefent fpecies of thinning, the reader 

 is referred to them. 



KEEPING THE PITS OF SEEDLINGS CLEAR OF 

 WEEDS. 



The abfolute neceflity of this work muft be a- 

 bundantly evident. In cafes where the ground 

 had been previoufly occupied with whins, part of 



which 



