438 FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



plants : The fecond year go a little nearer : Mark 

 fdch as you judge the bed for the crop ; and prune 

 off the dead flumps. In the third year, you may 

 thin them out to fix feet apart, and, by the fifth 

 year> they may be thinned out to nine feet apart. 

 The next thinning. f hin ten years, may be to 

 eighteen or twenty feet apart, provided it hap- 

 pen at intervals of five years ; and a third revi * 

 fion, at twenty years diflance from the lafl, fhould 

 determine the final diflance ; which mould be 

 from thirty to forty feet, according to circum- 

 ftances, It may be unnecefTary to repeat, that 

 fuch plants as have loft their leaders are the firft 

 objects for removal, provided no confiderable 

 blank be thereby occafioned. 



What is above faid, refpe&ing the Scots Fir, 

 will equally apply to the Larch, and all others of 

 the Fir tribe, which are planted for timber trees* 



WOODS 



