
            On PLANTATIONS and PLANTING.

can better resist the cattle than those of a less growth from the nurseries.
But this is principally to be understood of decidious trees, as few very
large evergreens, and particularly those of the pine kind, will bear such
transplanting; for as they in general receive their nourishment from the
extreme parts of their roots, and these being far extended when the trees
are grown large, must, in the operation of taking up, be destroyed; and
this accounts for so many evergreens of that kind appearing in a stunted
state, by being planted of too large a size. Therefore at first planting, for
trees of the largest growth ten feet, and those of a less growth eight feet
distance, may be deemed sufficient, reducing the distance of the others as 
their sizes diminish; but the shrubs which compose the front part of the
plantation, should be planted at the distance they are intended to remain
at the time they are full grown, which should be so near as at that future
period they may touch each other; and these distances must be judged of
according to the growths of the different plants; for at first planting, the intermediate
spaces between the shrubs may be occupied by perennial, biennial,
and annual flower plants: which, while the shrubs are growing, will
not only fill up the vacancies, but be very ornamental to the new plantiation.
        