fible in a Wood. The ufual space allowed to timber trees, ftanding among underwood, is thirty feet: two rods (thirty-three feet) will not be found, when the trees have fully formed their heads, too wide a space. Therefore, every eighth drill, at leaft, fhould be fown with acorns, dibbled in, about fix inches afunder *.

THE Oak and the Hazel, rifing the FIRST YEAR after fowing, their refpective drills will be fufficiently discriminable, at harvest; but the keys of the Afh lie two, and fometimes three, years in the ground, before they vegetate; and it will be convenient to have some distinguishing mark, in the stubble; in order to prevent their being disturbed in plowing the intervals, after harvest. To this end, if Beans be the fostering crop, fcatter a few Oats among the keys, the ftubble of which will fhew itself plainly, among that of the Beans; and, on the contrary, if Oats be the crop, a line of Bean ftubble will have the fame beneficial effect.

Be

AT harveft, the crop fhould be reaped, not mown, and be carried off with all convenient care. tween harvest and winter, a pair of furrows should be laid back to back, in the middle of each interval,

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For the particulars refpecting the propagation of the feve ral fpecies under confideration, fee their respective genera in the ALPHABET OF PLANTS.

away bufbes, and burning off the weeds and rough grafs, with which the furface may be encumbered. In this cafe, the number of plants, and the quantity of acorns, fhould be greater, than when the ground has been prepared by a fallow.

SINCE the foregoing Remarks were written (in 1783 and 4), fome favorable opportunities of collecting FARTHER INFORMATION, refpecting this very important branch of Rural Economy, have occurred to us.

IN the SOUTHERN COUNTIES, we have feen the Oak rife fortuitoufly, or with but little affiftance of the Woodman, to Timber of the first quality *. In the MIDLAND COUNTIES, we have examined Oak Woods, of different ages, which have been propagated by art, in the most fimple manner : namely, that of fowing acorns with arable crops, or of fetting them in the turf of grassland, and leaving the young plants to nature; and this with good fuccefst. In the HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND, we have obferved diftricts of mountain furfaces covered

Some Account of the Woodlands here alluded to, may foon appear in a Regifter of the RURAL ECONOMY of the SOUTHERN COUNTIES.

See the RURAL ECONOMY of the MIDLAND COUNTIES, Vol. ii. p. 297.

covered with tree plants, of various ages and fpecies; and this, too, with a fuccefs, which, feeing the inaccurate manner in which they are frequently put in, and the neglect they afterward experience, is almoft incredible *.

NEVERTHELESS, we ftill remain advocates for the practice of TREATING YOUNG WOODS AS NUROur motives are many: by

SERY GROUNDS.

keeping the foil in a ftate of tilth, and free from weeds, much time is gained in their early growth, and a strong vigorous habit given to the youthful plants: by this treatment, alfo, a favorable op portunity is obtained, for removing fupernumerary plants, for fale, or for plots of planting, or for filling up vacancies, in parts too thinly stocked.

WE likewife retain full conviction of the propriety of TRAINING THE YOUNG TIMBER TREES OF WOODS, in fuch manner as to render them, with certainty, applicable to the efpecial purposes for which they are raised, rather than to leave them to fortuitous circumftances; and fuffer them, by fpreading too low, to deftroy the underwood which furrounds them, or, by fhooting up too straight, to fruftrate

See a Sketch of the RURAL ECONOMY of the CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, prefented, as a REPORT of that Diftrict, to the BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, in Feb. 1794.

Chyry nature, Our de forman Reds that happen to be despes, ind vile și plants happen to be defendet, vo vterwad wugh buthes, from the bite of paterng mgode, and tomme few of the plants, tha Umumny miski, ma phone to tile the form defired by the #pagsenter: but this is all mere matter of aut

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vem kept woods, there may not, under the much prailed tettem of neglect, be a fufficient crack, en in honors fit for a fill tate fhip, in an acre of Woodland,

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or al proning Che Soughts, or far above the dem

of a tree in a youthful growing ftate? The operations are as diftinct as darkness and light, or as evil and good. In that cafe, the fize of the wound, and the exhausted state of the tree, unite to prevent the healing; and a defect in the timber confequently takes place: while, in this, the wound is inconfiderable, and the vigorous ftate of the tree enables it to cicatrize the fore, in a few months perhaps, after the operation is performed.

By freeing the ftems of young trees from fide fhoots, and by keeping their leaders fingle, a LENGTH OF STEM is, with certainty, obtained; and, by afterwards checking their upright growth, and throwing the main ftrength of the head into one principal bough (by checking, not removing, the reft), a CROOKEDNESS of Timber is had, with the fame certainty: and, what is equally neceffary in SHIP TIMBER, a CLEANNESS and EVENNESS of CONTEXTURE are, at the fame time, produced. The dangerous, and too often, we fear, fatal defect, caufed by the decayed ftumps of dead ftem boughs being overgrown and hid under a fhell of found timber, a defect which every fortuitous tree is liable to,-is, by this provident treatment, avoided: the timber, from the pith to the fap, becoming uniformly found, and of equal strength and durability.

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