May.'] GENERAL OBSERVATIONS, &C. 397 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE 

 GROUNDS TO BE PITTED. 



It generally happens, that the grounds to be 

 pitted are lefs or more covered with whins, broom, 

 or other brufhwood ; and, when this is the cafe, 

 it is fo far fortunate for the plantation. Shelter, 

 that great promoter of the growth of trees, is 

 anxioufly fought for by very intelligent planter. 

 Some planters, of little experience, and who feem 

 neither to have thought nor read, have, in prac- 

 tice, ihcautioufly cut up the whole brufhwood 

 from their grounds before pitting. But a little 

 reflection would have convinced them, that it was 

 their intereft to take advantage of the fhelter al- 

 ready provided by nature. In cafes where fuch 

 brufhwood confifts of the Sloe-Thorn, or other 

 too tall growing kinds, a greater portion of them 

 may be taken away ; but, in ordinary cafes, 

 only fo much as to allow the pits either for fowing 

 or planting to be made, mould be removed. In. 

 cafes where the Whins left appear to be too flen- 

 der for flanding, without having their tops bent 

 over upon the pits or young plants, they muft be 

 cut over at two or three feet high to prevent it, 



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DRAINING INTENDED FORESTS, 



By whatever means it is propofed, either to 

 prepare, or crop grounds with trees, draining is 



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