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PLANTING OF WASTELAND. 



ceiving, at the same time, due justice in planting. 

 With regard to the other species of firs, they are 

 scarce ever transplanted in the nursery, till they are 

 two years old, so that, in pui'chasing them of this 

 age, there is no choice left but to take them from 

 the seed-bed. 



Besides the fir tribes, there are two or three other 

 varieties of trees which are found to succeed well in 

 waste land, when removed to it from the nursery in 

 their second year. These are the birch, alder, and 

 mountain-ash. The last mentioned of the three, 

 indeed,, generally attains a size in one year which 

 qualifies it for being transplanted to the most bar- 

 ren situations, as successfully as at any period what- 

 ever. 



As soon as it was known that firs, and the other 

 species just mentioned, might be successfully trans- 

 ported to the moors, at the above stated age, it was 

 natural that a similar attempt should be made with 

 that important class which comprehends the ash, 

 elm, beech, plane, and oak. But, to say nothing of 

 the last mentioned tree, the proper mode of culti- 

 vating, which is explained at another place, I have 

 never known this experiment answer well with the 

 other four species, though I have seen it tried in a 

 variety of instances, to a considerable extent, and in 



