RECLAIMING PLANTATION'S, &C. 



may be thinned out from ten to fifteen feet, more 

 or lefs, according to the' richnefs of the foil, fitu* 

 ation in point of melter, and vigour of the plants. 

 About feven years afterwards (when the plan- 

 tation will be near forty years of age), the trees 

 will have advanced apace, from the treatment they 

 have experienced ; and may now be finally fmgled 

 out to the diftance of about thirty feet each way, 

 more or lefs, according to circumflances, as no- 

 ticed above. At this time, alfo, let the neceflary 

 pruning be performed, by fending a light perfon 

 up to fingle out the leaders more perfectly ; the 

 keeping of which in order will henceforth be ths 

 principal care required. 



RECLAIMING NEGLECTED PLANTATIONS OF 

 FRQM FIFTY TO SIXTY YEARS OLD. 



Plantations of the above age, which have either 

 never been regularly thinned, or which have run 

 into- diforder, are moft difficult to reclaim. In this 

 cafe, the branches have affirmed the appearance of 

 large arms, and bear a considerable proportion to 

 the trunk : To lop off fuch at once would be 

 very imprudent, and to fhorten them would make 

 the trees uniightiy. 



A temporary urifightlinefs, however, mould ne- 

 ver induce us to abandon what is evidently for the 

 good of the plant 5 nor tempt us to hazard its 

 H h 2 health 



