2SS CULTUilE AND MANAGEMENT OF OAK. 



SECTION IV. 



ACCOUNT OF EXPERIMENTS ILLLTSTRATIVE OF THE 

 ADVANTAGES OF THE METHOD OF RAISING OAK, 

 EXPLAINED IN THE FOREGOING SECTION. 



The first of these experiments was attended with 

 the following circumstances and results, and was 

 made in the year 1821. 



A considerable extent of waste land had been 

 planted in 1810, with larches, Scots firs, and oaks ; 

 two thousand of the first two kinds, and as many 

 of the -last having been allowed to the Scots acre. 

 The oaks had been treated exactly in the common 

 mode. The soil being of rather a favourable quality, 

 the Scots firs and larches had, at eleven years of 

 age, that is to say in 1821, attained a considerable 

 height, and exhibited a remarkably thriving appear- 

 ance. The oaks were in a very different state. A 

 great number of them had entirely disappeared, and 

 the remainder were scarcely two feet taller than at 

 the time they had been planted, and appeared very 

 weak and sickly. As is usual on such occasions, 

 the soil was blamed, and considered incapable of 



