594 FOREST PLANTATIONS. [May. 



favourable to growing larches, the hard wood 

 might be planted at fifteen feet apart, and the in- 

 terfpaces be filled up with larch nurfes ; fome of 

 which might be allowed to grow with the princi- 

 pals till they were of very confiderable fize : Thefe, 

 when felled out, would allow the hard wood to 

 ftand at fueh a diftance as to become very large 

 timber trees. By purfuing this method, a vafl 

 extent of ground can be planted at a fmall ex- 

 penfe, and with certainty of fuccefs. We have, 

 in observations on this fubjeft in January, men- 

 tioned, that plants, either of Scots firs, or larches 

 for nurfes, fhould be fmall plants.. Indeed, large 

 plants, with very bufhy roots, can never be flitted 

 in with propriety; but plants, of the fizes former- 

 ly mentioned, certainly can. 



PITTING FOR SOWING ACORNS AMONG NEW 

 PLANTED NURSES, &C. 



At 



We have formerly mentioned the advantages of 

 railing forefl timber trees from feeds without tranf- 

 plantation, efpecially oaks, and other forts former- 

 ly mentioned. Such may be fown in the fame 

 ipring in which the nurfes are planted, or defer- 

 red for a feafon or two, according as the circum- 

 ftances of an expofed or a Iheltered fituation may 



The diftance between the pits, for fowing a- 



corns 



