WITH PLANTING OPERATIONS. 83 



mind of an inexperienced man is liable to give in to 

 wrong advice, and then the whole work goes wrong; 

 time is lost, the work is badly done, and, in the end, 

 failure is the sure result. This state of things, I am 

 aware, often happens in planting operations ; there- 

 fore, for the guidance of those who may not have 

 experience enough, I shall here lay down, in a gen- 

 eral manner, the way of proceeding with planting 

 operations as they ought to be done. 



The land having been all well drained, when it 

 is intended to plant young forest trees, and the 

 drains having been allowed to act upon the ground 

 for at least one month previous to commencing to 

 plant, and also the greater part of the pits made for 

 any hard wood that may be to plant, — the next 

 important point that the planter has to attend to is 

 the bringing forAvard the young trees from the 

 nursery. The superintendent of the planting ope- 

 rations, previous to the arrival of the trees upon 

 the ground, must walk carefully over the whole of 

 the land to be planted, and note down in his 

 memorandum book the number of the different 

 sorts of trees that will be required for the plant- 

 ing of each division, as it naturally divides itself 

 according to soil and situation ; and having noted 

 this in his book as correctly as he possibly can, he 

 will, upon the arrival of the cart with the young 

 trees, cause to be sheughed* in a careful manner, in 



* Laid in quantities in furrows, to prevent their withering. 



