FOREST PLANTATIONS, 



FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



CONTINUE the preparing of grounds for future 

 plantations, according to circumftances, as di- 

 rected in the preceding months \ which fee. 



PLANTING FIRS. 



In fuch plantations as have been prepared by 

 pitting or fallow, and in which it is intended to 

 plant Firs, the work of planting may now go on. 

 Be careful to choofe damp or rainy weather in 

 which to perform this operation ; and fee that no 

 more plants be taken up in a morning than can 

 be planted on the fame day. The profpeft of 

 fuccess depends much, at any time, on the frefh, 

 undried flate of the roots of the plants ; but more 

 cfpecially at this warm feafon. In cafes, there- 

 fore, where the plants muft be brought from a 

 great diftance, it is wrong to attempt lifting them 

 at all at this feafon ; for, although the plants will 

 do well if planted immediately from the Nurfery, 

 they are liable to many injuries from delay and 



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