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\vhich had probably been cut away to facilitate 

 the making of the pits, it will be efpecially need- 

 ful to chop away the young growths around the 

 fown pits, that the young and tender plants be 

 not choked. The fame care, to prevent the en- 

 croachment of all coarfe herbage, is required. 

 Wherever the pits produce weeds, thefe muft be 

 pulled out, and the plants kept as clean as if the 

 pit were a part of the nurfery, at lead for the firffc 

 year. The work of chopping the encroaching 

 whins and coarfe herbage, muft be continued till 

 the plants be well eflablifhed, and have rifen a- 

 bove them. 



PLANTING SANDY MOORS, &C. WITH FIRS. 



In a number of places throughout the country, 

 there are large tracls of fandy moors covered with 

 fliort heath and coarfe grafTes, yielding at prefent 

 hardly a few millings per acre to the owners j 

 which, if they had been planted even with Scots 

 firs, would have produced a very different return. 

 We are aware, that planting extenfive tracls of 

 fuch forts of ground has been confidered too ex- 

 penfive for gentlemen of ordinary fortunes to fup- 

 port. Experience, however, that infallible in- 

 ftru&or, has taught us, that fuch could be plant- 

 ed at any eafy price, and might be fenced for a 

 fmall fum by the turf- wall ditches, topped by fown 

 i whin 



