FOREST PLANTATIONS. 387 



FALLOWING GROUNDS. 



If the grounds propofed to be fummer-fallowed 

 for the purpofes at prefent under view, will at all 

 bear a crop of oats, it fhould be taken previous to 

 attempting the fallowing. Without a crop to re- 

 duce and rot the fward, there is, in many cafes, 

 hardly a poflibility of bringing it to a good mould 

 in one feafon. And if the fward cannot be pro- 

 perly reduced, and the weeds deftroyed, without 

 two years labour, the advantage is evidently on 

 the fide of taking the oats, which will allow it to 

 be reduced with eafe in the following feafon. All 

 {tripes of plantation, or parts of a large mofs, 

 which are fituated near a refidence, ought to be 

 prepared by fallow, if it be required that the trees 

 fhould rife with fpeed in their infancy. In cafes 

 where their early progrefs can be confidered as a 

 matter of indifference, pitting, as for ordinary 

 foreft plantation, may be adopted. 



PREPARING GROUNDS BY PITTING, BOTH FOR. 

 PRINCIPALS AND NURSES. 



This method, next to fallow, is the beft. If 



the defign be extenfive, and the foil various, the 



methods of management attendant on pitting mud 



yary in proportion. The diftances at which the 



B b a pits, 



