Growing Timber Trees xmth Farm Produce. 413- 



Having laid out a field for 

 the purpose of planting trees jptlljis 

 in 12 ft. ridges, after fallowing 

 or green crop, let every third 



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water furrow be ploughed out 

 as deep as possible {Jig. 1 51 .) ; 

 then place manure in it in the 

 same way as in a turnip or 

 next gather in three furrows on each 

 of 



potato drill (fig. 152.) 



side, gathering the summit 



the ridges as high as possible 



(Jig. 153.), the object bein 



to place the manure deep, and 



cover it over with a good deal 



of well pulverised surface soil. The principal trees are then 

 154 to be put in, sloping from the 



most exposed direction of the 

 wind, and cut over as thorns 

 are, if the planting is com- 

 menced in the winter, to pre- 

 vent windwaving (.fig. 153.). 



The cropping ridges are now crown and furrow reversed, and 



the second spring, a row of 



quick-growing nurse plants is 



introduced on each side of the 



principal trees. (Jig. 154.) 



The fourth year half of the 



nurse plants are removed on 



the best exposure, (fig. 155.) 



The reason for not introduc- 

 ing the nurse plants till after the first year is, that I allow the 



more free use of the horse hoe 

 while it is of most use. By 

 placing the plants as recom- 

 mended, it causes the first 

 branch, which is afterwards to 

 become the main stem, to rise 

 to the blast (Jig. 156.), and by 

 backing up the ridgelet well 

 before winter sets in, wind- 

 waving is avoided, by which, 



when it takes place, water is admitted to destroy the roots. 

 If the supply of manure is sufficient for filling the whole 



drill longitudinally, it may be planted with tree plants a foot 



distant, the best of these being retained at certain distances, and 



