35^ PLANTATIONS OF TIMBER TREES. 



Little trouble is occasioned by keeping the fences in repair,. 

 I do not recommend the planting of acorns, but rather 

 procure them from nurseries, at two or three years old. 

 Jcedling larch. I think seedling larch thrives best when planted in moors, 

 and this also thins the seed beds, from which so many may 

 be taken and transplanted into nurseries, arid planted out 

 the second year after. 

 Scotch firs. I raise ^ery few Scotch firS, as I buy them from nursery- 



Hard woods, men, at ten-pence per 1200. I continue to have rurseries 

 of all the different hard Avoods, near my plantations, and 

 which I iind answer better than what are purchased from 

 nurserymen. In general they are planted too near each 

 other in their nurseries, and not being removed in time, the 

 roots are seldom so good, which I think I hate stated in my 

 former letters. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your most obedient humble servant, 



FIFE. 



IX. 



Remarks on the Advantages derived from Plantations of 

 Ash Trees ^ by David Bay, J^sq, of West-hill^ near 

 Rochester*^ 



Formeraccount 1n the first volume of the Society's Transactions for 1783, 



of planting page 109, will be found a detailed account of the experi- 



ments which Mr. Day had made to the years 1779 and 1780 



in planting Ash trees ; the present account points out their 



subsequent management. 



Mr. Day has deposited with the Society a minute account 

 of the expenses to which the following statements refer, 

 and which may be inspected at the Society's house. 



* Abridged from Trans, of Society of Arts for 1807, p. 4, 

 The silver medal of the Society was voted to Mr. Day. 



SIR, 



