FOREST. 
The foretter may take and arreft aman, if he be taken 
either at dog-draw , ftable-ftand, back- bear or bloody-hand, 
notwithftanding that three of thefe be ~~ Soba ae 
See Doc-Draw, Sraxsuie-Stand, &c. ee alfo Biac 
Forest, ‘a {mall ifland in the Britifh ‘territories, at the. 
mouth of lake Ontario, between which and Grand ifland‘is a 
tinacy an 
Ts, or Fo iad Depa ina eh one © Of the thirteen 
of France, ealled the reunited 
and on the fouth by Mottile, in N. lat. 49° 55'. The ti ter- 
ritorial extent of this deparcment is 7,089 kiliometres, or 
about 340 {quare leagues, and it contains 225,649 inhabit- 
ants, in’ fotir s, viz. Neufchateau, Luxembourg, 
Bittbourg, and Dieckirch ; 28 cantons, and 383 communes, 
ts Seen aaae to‘ general purpofes amount to 1,340, 
francs, an supon it for a miniftration, juice, 
arge 
- d public ieee a 215,623 epart- 
ae wooded, incur fertile, and ee nding 
Foxrsts; Submerged, i in Natural Hiftory, conttitute a cu- 
rious and’ important. phenomenon, whi chm oft vice on oe 
fensof th ge 
mon in fuch diftri&ts to tind | proftrate foretts of trees aes 
o 
ituations at prefent much below t 
high water level ot every tide of the fea, and {carcely elevated 
above low water level, in many inflances, where no {pecies of 
tree or plant of the kinds now found will grow, owing to the 
falt Nine as obferved under eee of the Sea. 
In the Phil. Tranf. 1799, par , Dr. Correa de 
Serva s furvey of a fubmarine fore on the na coaft is, given, 
si ee fubmer Laan are ae on the flat fhoree of 
ever maritime t ritifh ifland : fuch 
ran ftro cays 0 point ie one ot ne ) conclufions vig. that the 
ifland has either fubfided fome feet into the bofom of the 
ocean within the laft eight or ves centuries, or that the fea 
has rifen as much within the fame period, which latter phe- 
nomenon muft have been obferved on the oppofite continent, 
in Denmark, ie and Spain, as wellas the Netherlands, 
if it had oce 
REST tee, in Gardening, is a common name for all 
fuch trees as are grown in large woodsand forefts, either for 
timber, or aes ules. 
this kind, 
gears tare * fr, pine 
ds of raifing foreft-trees are diferent accord. 
oe eal kinds, but principally” eA — layers, 
an A cuttings, ag fewn under their different hh ea 
ft-treés, ei therb fowin ing 
the feeds of eo ‘or fetting the young plants after they 
‘have attained fonie growth, care fhould -conftantly be taken 
to adapt the forts of the trees as much as poffible to the ftate 
and nature of ‘the foil, as well as to ‘the fituation and ex- 
| pofure of the ind. In sas way they fucceed with much 
greater vitae 4 and Lucce 
s found by « eae that the oak, elm, maple, 
. birch, "8, Taco be on fach foils as aye-of the more deep 
‘and heavy kinds; while the ath, beech, chefaut, — fir, 
pitie, &c. thrive the moft perfeGly i in fuch foils as are oe 
the more light, dry, arid friable defcriptions ; 3; and the alder 
x poplar, willow, &e: where the moifture is more confiderable.’ 
The proper inanagement of foreft-trees isa matter which 
requires much care and attention. They demand, in both 
thinning out and seg their branches, the eyes nicety - 
and attention to t ifferent circum{tances 
e 
the nature and habits of snes of ee rees are likew 
to be taken into the account, and well confidered, before 
the work is begun. In the uhwets of thinning out foreit- 
trees, where the fituations are bleak and expofed, great res 
gard muft alfo be had to the prefervation of fuch forts of 
oreft-woods i 
of pac fhould be per 
not ke 
tre 
dual manner, fo as 
iufe too great a cold and ae at once to the © 
— teen and refinous trees in general ftand in need of 
much lefs pruning than fuch as are of the deciduous kind ; 
indeed, till lately they have fcarcely been attempted to be 
pruned at all; and how far the pruning fyftem which has 
recently been introduced, with refpeét to them, ma 
eg i ae to be decided by the refults of further trials. 
It has ‘o vantage, which is ‘that o 
namental, u 
tm ea 
rable increafe in the growth of the tinber “of 
h trees "ae can compenfate for fuch a deficiency in 
their ornamental appearance. 
The great obje@ of praning foreft-trees is that of aug- 
menting rihe growth of the wood or timber, by preventing © 
their eee = ve too greatly expended ow the 
oe of 
poi : 
Proper pruning ee requires that fuch branches fhould be 
cane ida us and’ rama to the perfect 
rees. 
e bee 
toa {ufficient bea in the boles, the more irr as ie ee 
of their heads need only be gradually thinned out, fo'a 
promote their full growth and increafe in wood. 
branches fhould in all cafes be cut off as clofély and acy 
as poffible to the trees; and, to prevent the larger ones from 
fplitting and deirig injury in that way, they fhould: be 
cut on the under as well as eee fide at the time they 
aré removed or taken off from t 
sy attention in the aie of hee efpecially ia 
aken ep they are young, their regular and ae 
— may be greatly direted and promoted. See 
we Timber Trees. 
All forts of foreft-trees fiould be well fecured from be- 
ing cropped while hae by ‘cattle, as, whenever a branch 
or fhoot 3 18 taken an b 
as foon as a by cutting: = 
avay clofe to the bodies of the tre 
eceh, and fome of the fof ended ‘trees, bear pring 
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