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long carriage, and feldom fucceed when expofed 

 to thofe difadvantages. 



We would carefully guard our readers agamft 

 attempting, at this feafon, the planting out of Firs 

 in grafs land, either by the T method, or by the 

 triangular dibble. We have known fome eager 

 and hurried planters greatly difappointed in the 

 attempt. Such work fhould always be left till 

 the latter end of March or firft of April. Indeed, 

 every attempt to plant by fuch means, at this fea- 

 fon of the year, mult fail ; becaufe there is not 

 fufficient length of time before winter for the roots 

 to ftrike into the hard, unmeliorated fides of the 

 flit ; neither do the roots of the grafs pafs from 

 the one fide of the cut to the other, in fufficient 

 numbers to keep it from opening ; confequently, 

 the firft fevere froft generally turns out the plant, 



PRUNING AND THIN.NING. 



Continue the pruning of all plantations, as di- 

 refted in the preceding months. It is now a pro- 

 per feafon for commencing the pruning of Gean 

 trees in the foreft. See February and January 

 under this article. The thinning of young plant- 

 ations of all kinds may now go on. 



