Sept.'} kECLAIMlNG PLANTATIONS, &C. 485 



proper to fet afide and prune up fome temporary 

 trees, (perhaps baring them of branches on one 

 fide entirely), in order to give place to plants 

 deemed worthy of (landing for good, and the 

 fafety of which, by removing the former at once, 

 might be endangered. 



At a revifion, in a few years, fuch pruned-up 

 temporary trees, and others of little value, which 

 can be fpared, mould be removed ; thinning out 

 the whole, as regularly as poflible, to the diftance 

 of from thirty to forty feet, according to circum- 

 flances, as already hinted. 



In plantations of this age, and, indeed, in all 

 clofe woods, it would be imprudent to flub up 

 by the roots the trees which are thinned out ; 

 becaufe, in doing fo, the roots of thofe left (land- 

 ing, might be ferioufly injured. They will, long 

 ere this, have extended their roots over the whole 

 furface : Many of the fibrous extremities will be 

 intermixed with the roots of the plants to be cut j 

 and thefe extremities being broken or wounded 

 in the operation of flubbing, would prove of con- 

 fiderable detriment to the growing trees, in as 

 much as, from fuch extreme fibres, which may be 

 deemed the purveyors of the plant, its chief fuf- 

 tenance is derived. 



In thinning fuch plantations, alfb, it becomes 

 a. matter of very confiderable importance, to be 

 careful not to hurt the trees to be Jeft, by the fall 



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