SECTION X. 



TREATMENT OF THE TREES SUBSEQUENTLY TO REMOVAL. 



It is with the removal of large trees, as with the exe- 

 cution of ordinary plantations. As soon as the plants 

 are fairly put into the ground, the planter usually con- 

 ceives his labour to be at an end, and that all after cul- 

 tivation is supererogatory or superfluous. This, although 

 a common, is a very pernicious error, and is not less 

 injurious in its effects in the one case than in the other. 

 Perhaps there is nothing in the course of this treatise 

 that is calculated to be more interesting, or more prac- 

 tically useful to the young planter, than what is to be 

 stated respecting afterwork in the few following pages. 



In the foregoing three sections, the preparing and 

 taking-up, the transportation and planting have been 

 treated as applicable, first, to single trees and open dis- 

 positions of wood ; and secondly, to close plantations : 

 therefore, in pointing out the afterwork, the same order 

 shall be followed, beginning as before with the former 

 department. 



First, as to open dispositions of wood. The end of 

 April, or beginning of May, as soon as the removal of the 

 last trees of the year (usually the Lime, the Horse-chest- 

 nut, and the Oak) is over, is the time to examine the 

 whole, and see how they stand as to covering for the 



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