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tised, and potatoes, turnips, or other green crop, 

 raised among them, without the plants being over- 

 whelmed. In case of grass production, the oftener 

 during the season the young plantation is mown, 

 the more advantageous, as well that the plants may- 

 be the more easily distinguished, as that the lower 

 branches may not be smothered, nor the soil so much 

 exhausted and dried by the blooming and seeding 

 of the herbage ; of course, a short scythe is required, 

 and also a very careful mower. 



Speaking of the best season for planting, Mr 

 Cruickshank states : — 



" In wet and swampy soils, as well as in land, 

 whether dry or moist, whose surface is bare, I would 

 be inclined to prefer the spring. Wet land swells 

 to such a degree, that plants which have not had 

 time to take a firm hold with their roots, are almost 



not conifei'Ee, the plants require a little more attention to train to 

 one leader and equality of feeders, than when close planted. We 

 should consider plough cultivation of young woods, provided 

 jiloughmen as expert and careful as the Scots could be obtained, 

 much more worthy the attention of the English planter than the 

 Withers' system (trenching). Need we mention, that in green crop, 

 every thing depends upon plenty of manure and of well-timed 

 plough and horse hoe labour ? Excepting in the case of larch, we 

 should dread no injury to tlie trees or timber from plenty of ma- 

 nure. 



