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abounding x/ith. many large ftones, for wliicli reafon only, I have 

 altogether excluded the Scots Fir ; but in mountainous rocky 

 fituations this plan will not fucceed near fo well", as the Poplars 

 and Planes cannot have their roots covered enough to nourifli 

 them at fii'ft planting : In fuch places therefore, Firs are per- 

 haps the greateft improvement can be made, planted not above 

 three years old, when, after two years more growth. Oaks and other 

 trees may be interfperfed v^^herever the land will receive them. 

 The culture of the Scots Fir then, fo far from being difcounte™ 

 nanced, fliould, with the greateft propriety, be rather increafed j 

 as there are ftill, in moft parts of Great Britain, more large 

 trails of mountainous, beggarly, and otherways unimproveable 

 furface, than the greateft induftry of feveral ages will probably 

 overtake, and cover with thefe plants. But 1 fliall now proceed 

 to the ages and fizes of trees beft fitted, in forbidding foils and. 

 fituations, to make our Foreft flourifti.. 



Some advife, that the beft manner of rearing woods, is by 

 fowing the feeds on the fpot. But of this I cannot approve, for 

 feveral reafons : It is, in the firft place, a very tedious pradlice, 

 allowing it to fucceed, which,, on many occafions it will not, 

 the ground muft be as well prepared, kept as clear of weeds as 

 in the nurfery garden, the land as regularly dug about the 

 plants, and in all refpe6ls as well cultivated as thefe. It is a 

 ijnall proportion of the feeds fown, and the plants that ought to 

 arife from them, which can remain in the wood to make trees,, 

 and, by raifmg what is fuperfluous, the plants meant to conti- 

 nue are generally much injured from thofe ftanding clofe toge- 

 ther about them, which circumftances will be attended with a 

 much greater expence in the end, before thefe plants are out o£ 

 danger, than at once making a handfome finifhed plantation^.. 



