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FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



, THE principal objefts which demand peculiar 

 care in this department, in this month, are, firft, 

 the new fovvn Oaks throughout all the plantation* 

 The pits in which they were fown are to be exa- 

 mined, and cleared from all encroaching herb- 

 age or underwood ; as whins, or the like. A 

 narrow-mouthed fpade, well fharpened, will an- 

 fwer befl for chopping fuch off around the infide 

 of the pit. The herbage fo cut off muft be re- 

 moved from the pit by the hand ; and the mid- 

 dle, or fpot where the acorns were planted, mud 

 be carefully weeded by the hand, and the vacant 

 fpace around the infide of the pit mould be hoed 

 by a fmall garden hoe. Jtf the young oaks have 

 appeared, the fpace between them mould alfo be 

 &irred by the fame means : the greateft care, 



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