General Instructions. 



sort beneath it. 3. A brown loose loam, with gravel, sand, 

 brick-earth, or clay or stone beneath. 4. A stiff and 

 reddish loam, with large flints (yellow outside and whitish 

 inside) amongst it, and with chalk, at various depths, be- 

 neath. 5. A loose grey earth, fall of flints (grey outside 

 and bkie inside) on a bed of chalk, not far distant. 6. A 

 marley top soil with chalk beneath. 7. A marley soil with 

 grey, or white, stone beneath. 8. A stiff" loam with clay 

 beneath, and not far from it. 9. A loose sandy loam with 

 brick-earth beneath. 10. A loose sandy loam with clear 

 white sand to a great depth beneath. 11. A very light 

 reddish sandy loam with red sand, or sand-stone, beneath. 

 12. A black-grey shandy loam, with sand or sand-stone not 

 far beneath. 13. A stiff loam, mixed with small gravel at 

 top, and with clay beneath. 14. A loose grey soil, mixed 

 with pebbles, at top, and a bed of gravel beneath. 15. 

 Boggy ground. 16. Stift' groimd with water not far be- 

 neath. 17. Water-sides. 



10. There are several other sorts of ground ; so great is, 

 indeed, the variety, that it would require a volume, much 

 larger than this will be, barely to give any thing api)roach- 

 ing towards a full and accurate description of each. Here 

 is, however, enough for any practical purpose ; for, the 

 difference between any cue of the above-mentioned soils 

 and any other, approaching in nature towards it, is not, as 

 to its capacity for bearing trees, so great as to make the 

 remarks, applicable to the former, inapplicable to the 

 latter. 



PREPARING THE GROUND FOR PLANTING. 



11. How many millions have been thrown aicay in plant- 

 ing ! How many thousands of plantations have, at the 

 end of twenty or fifty years, made a beggarly exhibition ; 



