88 POREST PLANTATIONS* \M(ty* 



pits are to be made, mud be regulated by the 

 circumftances of foil and flicker, or the want 

 of it. 



On fuch parts as are very much expofed, the 

 pits mould not be at a greater diftance than three 

 and a half feet, nor nearer than three feet. On 

 places lefs expofed, and where the foil is good, 

 they may fland at the diftance of four and a halfj 

 or, in very fine land, and where the fhelter is 

 greater, at five feet diftance ; and this is the 

 greateft diftance at which trees fhould ftand in 

 any new planted grounds, however favourable 

 the foil and fituation may be. 



In a plantation of the extent and variety of foils 

 at prefent under our view, it cannot be expected 

 that the fame rule of pitting will every where equal- 

 ly apply 5 neither would the fuccefs be equal, if all 

 foils were pitted in the fame manner* 



In light, porous foils, the furface of the pit 

 fliould be pared thin off, and laid in the bottom 

 of the laft made pit, with its green fide undermoft, 

 and the earth laid on above it ; becaufe, by this 

 means, the fward will be fully reduced to earth 

 by the planting feafon in the following fpring ; 

 and the foil will be, in fome meafure, fallowed in 

 the pits. This method is elfential in all thin foils. 



But if the foil to be pitted be ftrong, ftubborn 

 clay, with a tough fward, it may be proper to 



place 



