OSIER. 
laid afide the upper {pit ; the turf being removed, he fhall 
return this {pit into the ditch, and plant upon it; thus no 
=a will be loft.’ 
t is further tated that “in the year 1796, > made an 
experiment on an acre of land of this quality ; he ploughed 
one half of it, my ti other half was dug with the f{pade, 
-about fourteen inches deep; the fod of that thicknefs was 
inverted The plantation on the ploughed 
failed in m 
to — a s fuficient quantity ce moi The preceding 
year he planted in a piece peat gacue.< on banks as before 
defcribed, an there the ofiers do well. d he has a rich 
a bed of potters’ clay; the fituation is low, 
and sepaled to ae water ; 
in their whole length, and pegged them on the ground; they 
ftruck good roots into the earth, and threw out seaman 
fhoots. his experiment, tog zether with that of planting 
upon banks, will enable him ‘to anfwer the queftion often 
afked, ‘ Of what length ought the fet to be?” It depends 
Id be fo much of it in the ground 
peat moifture, and fo much of it o 
urifhment, in that cafe, will 
ake immediately fon yas roots: to the rods or nae with- 
& to the time of ae 
cn feiss Ea he has made confirms the opinion, that the 
*¢ autumn, and not the {fpring, is the moft proper feafon for 
planting. ofe who think with him ell that the fall of 
the leaf indicates the proper time to cut the fets; it cer- 
tainly is fo in general ; but the leaf of ie ofier, like that of 
the oak and other trees, will fometimes prolong i's ane 
The ftagnation of the juices is the true criterion by w to 
judge, not.on account of the fet, but of the trunk, left, if 
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more vigorous when 
tions not very homogeneous, the ofe ards, the other 
downwards. It is impelled to fhoot its pane into the 
earth, to form its ftability, = procure sao 3 andi 
received opinion, a warm and dry {pring is always injurious 
on be not fufficient rain to 
to the young plantations. If there 
onvey fuftenance by the leaves and bark, in aid of t 
{mall quantity Aichi by the root, the plant muft die or 
diffolution. 
tion, and or the remainder of the piece he planted in March 
following. In the beginning of May, thefe laft "planted 
were the forwardeft, which, for atime, ftaggered his opinion 
of the moft proper time for planting; but in June, thofe 
planted in the autumn had much the advantage, and have 
continued to grow well: thofe ie were fet in the {pring 
decayed in fummer, and many of them died. When the 
abies have been formed before the pens or when a ten- 
the bark, and particularly at the eye, the plant is enabled t 
charge itfelf with a fufficient portion of the juices to anfwer 
the demand of fpring ; the rule, therefore, which he lays 
down for himfelf, where no obftru€tions are — d by the 
water, is to plant n 
fets, without endangering the parent ftock.’ 
n the fifth volume of the Farmer’s aoe the follow- 
ing neon | is ftated to be had recourfe to: in the fens many 
holts (as they are provincially called), or plantations of ofiers, 
are raifed, which beautify the country, keep the ftock warm 
in the winter, and provide much ufeful wood for bafkets, 
cradles, and all kinds of wicker-work, and alfo for cribs 
for cattle to eat ftraw or hay out of, or to ase ftows or 
hurdles to fence in ftacks, part lands, &c or they 
make hidges that laft four hag well, and if allowed to 
zrow five years, many of t would ake fork-fhafts for 
hay andcorn. Thefe holts or plantations of ofiers are com- 
monly made in the middle of the land, in the nerth and eaft 
alle and fometimes at any sil fide, or Dac that appears 
he pas ae ae The fitu- 
Sometimes 
wide to 11, and from 10 to £00 yards lon ng. 
The mode of i aor is very fimple; it is, firit to dig 
the land from 6 to 12 inches deep, and then to prick down 
cuttings of four years’ growth, - 18 incheslong, at about 
three ae diftance from each other. The foil fhould be 
moor or clay, or any thing that is oe and wet ; if drowned 
half ie year it ‘will be but little the worfe. 
nient. 
s ut when 
the ofiers are kept for fets, or to make hedgin ee or for 
ftows or hurdles, _ they are cut only « once | in four yea 
Wherever th to This bt of 
cultivation, as there is a conftant demand for {uch articles, he 
fhould never negle& making plantations, as nothing that he 
can ee upon fuch land will probably pay him fo well. 
Young ftates, that “the late Mr. Forby, of 
Norfolk, knew the value of thefe plantations well for vari- 
ous purpofes, Ofiers planted in {mall {pots, and oe fome 
il his =e furnifhed him with hurdle-ftuff enough 
ozens every year, fo that he fips himfelf 
entirely with that article, as well as with a profufion of alk 
forts of bafkets, efpecially one kind that he ufed for moving 
cba plants, | - which purpofe they were much better 
an 
