Thb Locust. 



tempted, unless you be resolved to take all the precautions 

 which I took. If wet weather should happen to come the day 

 after sowing, or even shady or moist weather, you need not 

 resort to the covering with mats; but otherwise, the late 

 sowing is not to be attempted without shading. 



388. When a Locust tree is a foot and a half, or two feet 

 high, it is quite fit to go into any plantation, even amongst 

 other trees; for, if cut down in the month of April, the 

 year after planting, or even in May, it will soon over-top 

 other trees; but if the plants be really too small to put out 

 at once, they should be assorted with care, the stout ones 

 in one lot, and the weak ones in another ; and thus, pre- 

 cisely after the manner of the Ash, put into the nursery, the 

 roots having first been properly pruned. 



389. I have, in former parts of this article, said enough 

 about distances in the plantation; but I must here add, that, 

 when old coppices of a mixture of underwoods, want 

 Jilling up, there is nothing like the Locust. In such cop- 

 pices, there are frequently vacant spots, of a rod or more 

 square. The land in these spots produces nothing but grass 

 and weeds. The grass can never be eaten off by cattle 

 without destruction to the underwood ; so that the fencing, 

 the rent, and the taxes for these spots of land, are all thrown 

 away. Those who take care of their underwoods, dig 

 holes therefore in their vacant spots, and plant young trees 

 to produce new stems. These, however, go on very slowly 

 compared with the Locust. If the Locust were planted 

 the year after they are sowed, in a hole made about six feet 

 over, and three or four plants in each hole ; and if they 

 were cut down the year after planting, they would always 

 overtake the old coppice, and produce hop-poles as quickly 

 as these would be produced by the old stems of the Ash or 



