136 PLANTING OF WASTE LAND. 



rooted, which, in general, they will be, in a year af- 

 ter the slips and layers are put into the ground. 



The above remarks embrace all that I have to 

 offer respecting the ages at which the different 

 kinds of trees ought to be transferred to the situa- 

 tions where they are intended finally to remain. I 

 proceed next to describe the several varieties of 

 the mechanical part of planting in most common 

 use ; andj in doing this, I will have an opportunity of 

 pointing out the cases in which each may be most 

 successfully applied. 



The oldest, and most generally known, system of 

 planting adopted in forming woodlands, is that 

 which has received the technical denomination of 

 'pitting. It may be described as follows : — A suffi- 

 cient number of round holes or pits are made in the 

 ground intended to be planted, at regular distances 

 from one another, and each large enough to contain 

 the roots of a single plant, when extended at their 

 full length. The earth taken out in digging the 

 pit is laid upon its edge, care being taken nei- 

 ther to tread upon nor scatter it. In putting 'in 

 the young trees, two persons are generally employ- 

 ed. One sets a plant in the pit, in such a position 

 as that the central part of the root may coincide 



