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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



By CrosS'Slitting, or the Double Notch. 



3000 larches and Scots firs, from one to three years trans- 

 planted, at 5s. - - - L.O 15 0 

 500 hard wood do. do. at 12s. - 0 6 0 

 4 days of one superior planter, or of two or- 

 dinary planters, at 3s. - - 0 12 0 



L.l 13 0 



By the Flat Dibble^ or the Single Notch, 



4000 larches or Scots firs, from the seed-bed, or one year 

 transplanted, at 2s. 6d. - - L. 0 10 0 



1000 hard-wood plants, - -070 



li day of a planter, at 2s. - - 0 3 0 



L.l 0 0 



Although our author speaks so confidently of the 

 success of transplanting out firs at one and two years 

 of age, yet this must only be taken under limitation 

 to the country in which his experience has lain,— 

 the barren mountains and moors of Scotland, where 

 the vegetation of the heaths is extremely slow, and 

 the herbage both thin and short. Were these small 

 plants used in the superior climates of England and 

 Ireland, where the vegetation of the grasses, and 



