Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, ajtd FRUITS. 
deur; likewife, the Larix or Larch, being a tree of 
a fwift and beautiful growth, makes a fine appearance 
in ornamental planting. 
In planting the different forts of 'Phms for the above 
ornamental occafions, that where intended for conti¬ 
nued plantations, fome may be planted in open groves, 
in rows fifteen to twenty feet afunder,,.to give room 
for them to branch and fp'read freely ‘around in full 
heads; othersjnay be planted-in clofe groves, thick¬ 
ets, clumps, walks, &C. fix or eight, to ten feet dif- 
tance, and will draw one another up more expediti- 
ouily in a tall, ftra-ighf growth. 
To plant thefe trees for timber plantations, all the 
forts may be admitted^ or principally, only the har- 
diefi and largeft-growing kinds, fuch as .the Pinalter 
and Scotch Pine, abundantly, for its lingular hardi- 
uels ro glow, any where, in a quick growth, and for 
the great ufefulnefs, of its wood; likewife plenty of 
the Weymouth Pine, as a mod lofty-growing tree; 
alfothe italian Stone Pine, Swamp.Fine, Spruce Firs, 
Silver Fir, and the Cedar of Lebanon and Larches; 
all of which may. be planted in foils and lituations be¬ 
fore me:honed; and which, for fared or timber-trees, 
dijiferve. cultuie in. confiderable plantations, in all 
playss where they afford proper'extent of fpare ground 
to allot for that purpofe, which not only give an air 
of importance and ornament, but greatly improve the 
value of edates; and in forming which plantations, 
they may, in foiqe places, be planted in clofe rows at 
fird, five or fix feet afunder, to. draw one another up 
draight, and 'more expeditioully in height; and when 
of advanced grow th, in eight, ten, or twelve years, 
fome might be thinned out for poles, &c. and may 
repeat thinning out the underling trees, by degrees, 
leaving the bed handing at fifteen to twenty feet dis¬ 
tance, or more, to acquire full growth for timber;-or 
fome may be planted at once at the above didance of 
fifteen or twenty feet, to remain wholly to grow to 
large ftandards, before any are cut down. 
For the above plantations, the ground is fometimes 
prepared by ploughing, &c. where the fituation ad¬ 
mits, efpecially for clofe planting; otherwife, or 
fometimes in general, no otner preparation is given, 
than only to dig holes in which to plant the trees. , 
Or fometimes plantations of the Scotch Pine, &c, 
are formed by fowing the feeds lh drills in -the places 
where the trees are always to rfcmain, having the 
drills five or fix feet afunder; the ground being pre- 
vioufly ploughed, either wholly, or otherwife ploughed 
or digged along the places for the drills, for fowing 
the feed therein ; and when the plants are come up in 
. the fird and fecond year, thin them to eligible dif- 
tances, by drawing them out in autumn or fpring, 
leaving the mod thriving plants Handing two or three 
feet afunder; and when of more advanced growth', in 
two or three years, thin them more effedlually, by 
removing the weaked, and leaving the fh'Qngeft fivp 
or fix feet afunder, to remain till advanced to. fome 
confiderable fize, then fome may be cut down in a 
thinning order, gradually, as intimated above. 
With regard to the propagation, or method of raif- 
ing the different fpecies of Pinus, it is effedled wholly 
by feed fowed in the fpring feafpn, in beds of light 
earth. 
The feed for fowing is obtained from the cone- , 
which ripen in autumn and winter; and the feed is 
cleared therefrom either by expofing them in the fu >, 
or towards a gentle fire, to make them open to di(lodge 
the feed, which are clofely involved in the feales; or 
fome of the large, clofe, hard dones, as in the Italiaq 
Storie Pine, Cedar of Lebanon, fee. muff be follt 
opert, by boting-a hole through lhe middle; longitudi¬ 
nally, and driving a peg or {pike therein to divide 
them afunder, whereby to come at the feeds, which, 
in all the forts, clear out from the feales, keeping 
thofcj of each fort feparate-, for fowing diHindi accord ¬ 
ingly ; they fhould be foWed principa ly in trrd fpring, 
anytime in open weather, in February-, March, or 
beginning of April; and for'Which, prepare beds of 
light earth, three or four foet wide-; rake fome earth 
off the top evenly, an inch deep, into the alley?; fow 
the feed tolerably thick, broad-caff on the furface, 
each fort feparate, and covered with the earth which 
was raked off the-beds; or may fow any particular 
forts in large pot ;, fuch as the Cedar of Lebanon, &c. 
in order for moving the pots of feedlings to a lhady 
place in fummer, and to a Iheltered, warm, fituation 
in. winter; more fecure from rigorous froft the firff year 
or two, in their tender growth. 
All the forts will come up the fame year, in fix or 
eight weeks; give moderate watering in their ftrft iif- 
ing, in dry weather; the plants rife very flfnder the 
firll year,' generally only with a few leaves, and a 
fmall bod of the advancing (hoot in the centre; or 
fome will probably make a fhort fhoot by autumn: 
keep them clear from weeds all fummer, and in win¬ 
ter, if fevere froft, occafional (belter to the Cedar of 
Lebanon in particular, would be of advantap-c; the 
others will net require any protd&ion. 
In the fprrng following, they fhould be-plantcd out 
from the (eed-beds; draw them up with good roots, 
and plant them in other beds, in rows fix or eight 
inches afunder; and iiaving advanced two years growth 
in the plantcd-out beds, tranfplant them in nurfery- 
rows two feet and a half diltance, and in which to 
remain to acquire proper fize for final tranfplanting, 
permitting them to run with the top or leading fhoot 
intire, to alpire in height with a ftraight Item, as fafl 
