PART VIII. 



PICTURESQUE 



PLANTING. 



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SECT. IV. OP THE SIZE OP THE PLANTS, AND MODE OF 

 PLANTING OR SOWING. 



Experience has shewn, that where there is any degree of na- 

 tural shelter, and especially where the soil has been prepared, 

 plants that have been transplanted in the nursery, and that are 

 from eighteen inches to three feet high, are the most proper to 

 be chosen. In planting, they ought to be placed from four to 

 six feet asunder, irregularly. In exposed places, where shelter 

 is to be obtained only by planting thick, or by planting nurses, 

 transplanted plants, under eighteen inches high, should be 

 chosen, and planted from thirty inches to four feet asunder. 

 The distance between the plants, in both these cases, will vary 

 much, according to soil and other circumstances. The mar- 

 gins of extensive plantations, and narrow strips or patches, 

 should be thicker planted than the inside of a great extent, 

 though in the same exposure ; on the other hand, where the 

 soil is a deep loam, they may be placed wider than where it is 

 thin and gravelly. In very extensive plantations, it becomes 

 an object to plant in rows; as thus the trees may be more ea- 

 sily cultivated. In many cases, this may be done to great ad- 

 vantage with the plough and horse-hoe ; and often, particularly 

 in England, vegetables might be introduced between the rows 



