r O R E S T -TREES. 



' wife a plant of much elegance, not quite fo broad in the leaf as 

 the other, but of a gay lighter green and whitifli bark, deeply 

 furrowed. 



In the beginning of March, let the cuttings of thefe trees, a 

 foot long, be planted, eight inches deep, in well-prepared foil, 

 of a good quality, in lines, thr^e feet afunder, and the plants fix- 

 teen or eighteen inches diflant in the line, when, after two 

 years {landing, they may be removed to where they are defigned 

 i^to remain. 



Though, as has been obferved, thefe plants appear, and I 

 • believe are, or will become very hardy, yet I muft notice, that, 

 having planted fome of their cuttings in rich, and others in poor 

 and lefs cultivated ground, I have loft a confiderable number of 

 thofe in the poor, while not one of a hundred has failed in the 

 generous foil ; from whence I naturally conclude, that in 

 making plantations of them in coarfe, barren, or cold fituations, 

 the nurfed plants are much preferable to cuttings, though this is 

 no argument againft their becoming very hardy when advanced 

 in growth. But whatever their fuccefs maybe in forbidding foils 

 and climates, we have, in the mean time, the ftrongeft motives 

 to encourage them for ornamental plantations in thofe that are 

 favourable. 



