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PLANTING OF WASTE LAND. 



the expense of it would preclude its coming into ge- 

 neral use. Those who advise the adoption of such 

 a plan, are generally persons whose knowledge is 

 purely theoretical. Though unintentionally, they 

 do real injury to the interests of planting, by per- 

 suading their readers that it is a kind of improve- 

 ment much more costly than it actually is, when 

 conducted on rational principles. 



SECTION II. 



ON THE AGE WHICH THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF 

 TREES OUGHT TO BE WHEN THEY ARE REMOV- 

 ED FROM THE NURSERY TO WASTE LAND-DE- 

 SCRIPTION OF VARIOUS METHODS OF PLANTING. 



The most proper time for removing Firs from the 

 nursery to waste land, is when they are two years 

 old. Larches, indeed, may often be successfully 

 transported at half this age, as they grow more in 

 the seed-bed during their first summer than any 

 other species of the same tribe ; but the Scots, 

 spruce, silver and balm of Gilead firs make so little 

 progress the year they rise from the seed, as to ren- 

 der the planting of them, if not absolutely imprac- 

 ticable, at least so difficult an operation, that few 



