YOUNG TREES, ETC. 65 



The hard-wood trees, to grow them well, require a 

 heavier and a richer soil than the firs do ; which 

 suggests to us, that in laying out a new plantation, 

 the hard wood should be planted in the heaviest 

 and richest parts of the soil contained in it. 



The planter being possessed of a knowledge of 

 the soil and situation adapted to the healthy growth 

 of each species of forest tree, his duty is, in the plant- 

 ing of a piece of ground with forest trees, to plant 

 those sorts which, from his knowledge, he has rea- 

 son to expect will succeed upon it. With this view 

 he may proceed thus : — Let him examine the nature 

 of the soil throughout the whole extent of the ground 

 designed for planting, and, having done so, consider 

 what sort of tree will succeed best, for a permanent 

 crop, upon each different soil and situation that 

 may be contained within the bounds of the in- 

 tended plantation ; and, having determined this 

 point, proceed to have pits made for all hard-wood 

 trees intended to be put in — say at eight feet dis- 

 tance from each other. WTierever the soil is found 

 of a loamy nature, and the situation is not too high, 

 plant oak, ash, elm, or plane-tree, at the distances 

 specified ; but in all cases giving the preference, in 

 number and extent, to that species which is sup- 

 posed to be most likely to succeed best upon the 

 soil; and observing, in all cases where it is in- 

 tended that one sort of hard wood alone shall be 

 the ultimate crop, to plant no other kind of hard 



