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cutting do\Mi of the young resulting shoot, year af- 

 ter year, that the plant may acquire long roots, ex- 

 tended do^Mi the crevices, to give the future stem 

 stability and sufficient foraging. We would never 

 cut doAm but when the plant appeared stunted, and 

 not then in succession, nearer than three or fom* 

 years from the last cutting. Those \yho possess 

 rocky precipices, so steep or inaccessible that the 

 above method of our author could not be practised 

 vAth. conveniency, may cause a quantity of the 

 cheapest seeds of trees be sovm dowa over the top 

 of the crags dming the winter : we would prefer the 

 end of January, as the mouldering effects of the 

 frost and the rains would cover nmnbers of these, so 

 as they woidd come to vegetate. 



Mr Monteath advises, in rearing oak-forest or 

 copse, to put in only about thirty plants per acre, 

 and by layers from these to cover the interstices. 

 In order to recommend this practice, he states the 

 celerity vdth which these coidd be extended, layer 

 beyond layer, making steps, every second season, of 

 eight or nine feet, by relaying the last layer's shoots, 

 and he affirms, that a forest could be sooner, and more 

 economically raised by this means, than by planting 

 the whole at first. This is sufficiently imaginative. 

 He seems not to be aware of the fact, that life is 



