CLEAR FROM GRASS AND WEEDS. 91 



This work must be carefully done, particularly 

 where boys or other young people are employed, 

 as they are very apt to cut off the tops of many of 

 the young trees if they are not strictly looked 

 after; therefore, the man who is put over them 

 should not work alongside with them, but go im- 

 mediately behind them, and closely inspect all 

 that they have done as the work proceeds, observ- 

 ing that they do not pass over any young trees 

 requiring to be cleared, as well as seeing that those 

 cleared be done in a proper manner. This opera- 

 tion ought to be performed twice during the sum- 

 mer season, viz. — between the middle and end of 

 the month of June, and a second time in the month 

 of August; and where the trees are growing among 

 vegetation of a rank description, the same work 

 may require to be repeated for three or four 

 years successively, or at least until such time as 

 the young trees rise above the rank growth of the 

 weeds in the summer season. 



Young trees, besides being apt to be injured by 

 grass and other common weeds, are often still more 

 seriously hurt by whins and broom growing among 

 them. It very often happens, that young trees 

 are planted where whins and broom have been cut 

 down, and not grubbed out by the roots; in which 

 case, the whins in particular are sure to push out 

 a stronger and more vigorous growth than ever 

 the following year. Whenever this may have been 



