PITTING GROUND, &c. J95 



corns in the foreft, rnuft depend on the ultimate 

 views : If it be intended limply to raife an oak 

 wood, they may be made at the diftance of nine 

 feet ; but if it be intended to raife a copfe, they 

 mould not be farther diftant from each other than 

 fix feet. The making of the pits, for fowing a- 

 corns, mufl be regulated by the fame circumftances 

 as to diftances, and the melioration of the foil, as 

 mentioned above for general pitting. 



PITTING FOR SuWING. FORESTS OF FIRS AND 

 MARCHES. 



The obfervations made above, in refpeft to the 

 diitance between the pits in. general pitting, apply 

 to the prefent head. Indeed, the whole that is 

 there faid will apply in the prefent cafe, except- 

 ing in refpeft to the depth of the pits. Both for 

 general planting, and for fowing acorns, we hav<i 

 advifed to dig up feveral inches of the fubfoil, 

 even although it may appear unfriendly to vege- 

 tation ; and this was proper ; v becaufe it wa> 

 plants that were to be introduced, and feeds of 

 a very hardy kind, which required to be buried 

 feveral inches under the furface, and whofe roots 

 would confequently be imbedded in what good 

 foil there might be. But, in the prefent cafe, we 

 are to pit for very tender feeds, which require all 

 the encouragement and care which it is in onr 

 power to give : Therefore, we cannot advife, in 



any 



