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ing it always full of plants. There are too many 

 Scotch and larch fir trees, none of v^^hich answer the 

 soil well ; the common spruce fir will do better ; but 

 the oak, the plane, the beech, and ash, will be the only 

 trees that will come to maturity as timber trees 

 here. The blanks should be completely filled up 

 with these kinds, and regularly cut over till they are 

 past the danger of dying ; the most of the ash 

 plants should be cut over this season, close by the 

 surface of the ground. This, from its proximity to 

 the last bank described, should be reared as a stand- 

 ing clump of timber trees, and regularly thinned as it 

 comes up, as already laid down in No. IV. plantation. 

 The old wooded bank, looking down on the river, 

 requires a few plants put in — keep up the old trees — 

 the plants to be put in must be enclosed singly, as 

 the expense of enclosing the whole would be too 

 great for the few trees required. Plant with Spanish 

 chesnut, ash, and elm, and enclose them singly with 

 my portable paling, as before recommended. As 

 this is a very thin bare soil, all the oak, ash, and plane 

 plants should be large when put in, so as to have 

 strong good roots, and cut the top off them close by 

 the surface so soon as put into the ground, as there is 

 little or no sward growing to injure the plants ; the 

 fir plants should only be two year old seedUngs when 

 put in, say not above six or eight inches long. 



No. VIII. 



Field. 



The bank here, below the old burying-ground of 

 Churchtown, is much in want of filling up, as it is fit 



