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SECT. III. Planting out Nursery Plants, 30.
Preparing the Ground, 30.
The Seafon of Planting, 32.
Pruning and Sorting the Plants, 32.
Planting them, 33.
Attendance after Planting, 37-
Cleaning the Plantation, 38.
Pruning the Young Trees, 38.
Thinning them, 40.
SECT. IV. Tranfplanting Tall Plants, 40.
DIVISION THE SECOND.
CHOICE OF TIMBER TREES.
SECT. I. Confumption of Timber, 47-
I. By Ships, 49.
II. By Buildings, 49
III. By Machines, 50.
IV. By Utenfils, 51.
The feveral Species of Timber ufed, by the
different Workers in Wood, 49 to 53.
SECT. II. Situation and Soils, 54.
DIVISION THE THIRD.
HEDGES AND HEDGEROW TIMBER.
Introductory Remarks, 55.
The Effects of Hedgerows on cultivated
Lands, 56.
Species of Hedges, 57.
SECT. I. Species of Hedge Woods, 58.
Hawthorn, 59.
Crabthorn, 60.
The Aquatics, 60.
Holly, 61.
Farze, 63.
SECT. II. Method and Seafon of Planting, 64.
I. The Fence Wood, 64.
General View of the Practice, 65.
Planting with Ditch and Plain Bank; 71.
Planting with a Ditch and Offset, 71.
Planting upon level Ground, 73.
Time of Planting, 74.
On the Holly and Crab, 74.
On the Furze as a Guard, 75
II. The Hedgerow Timber, 76.
The Species; the Oak; for Ship Timber, 77.
Method of raising it, 77.
SECT.
SECT. III. Defending the young Plants, 78.
SECT. IV. Training young Hedgerows, 79.
Pruning and Weeding newly Cut Hedges, 91.
A Hedge Hook, for this Purpose, 91.
Treatment of Old Rough Hedges, 93.
Replanting Worn-out Hedges, 95.
II. Management of Hedgerow Timber, 96.
Training Planted Timberlings, 96.
Taking down Hedge Timber, 98.
Treatment of Neglected Hedge Timber, 101.
Setting them out at proper Diftances, 102.
PRUNING them fully treated of,
102.
DIVISION
DIVISION THE FOURTH.
WOODLANDS OR
USEFUL
PLANTATIONS.
Introductory Remarks, 109.
Diftinction between Ufeful and Ornamental
Plantations, 109.
On the prefent State of Ship Timber, în
England, 110.
The Quantity of Woodland cleared by a
Seventy-four Gun Ship, 111.
The private Advantages of Planting enu-
merated, 112.
Precautions requifite to profitable Planting, 115.
Enumeration of the most profitable Timber-
Trees, and Underwoods, 118.
Species of Woodlands enumerated, 119.
SECT. I. Woods; or a Mixture of Timber and
Underwood, 120.
Peculiarly adapted to Ship Timber,
120.
On different Methods of raifing Woods, 121.
Laying out Lands for Woods, 124.
Fencing them, 126.
On raining Woods from Seeds,
127.
Preparing Grounds culturable with the com-
mon Plow, 128.
Time of Sowing,
129.
Method of Sowing in Drills, 129.
The
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The Species of Underwoods to be adapted to
the given Markets, 130.
Species of Timber, the Oak, 130.
Collecting fupernumerary Plants.
Nurfing them, in the Intervals.
The firft Cutting, 133.
The fecond Fall, 135.
Succeeding Falls, 135.
Training the Timberlings, 136.
Railing Woods on fteep Hangs, culturable
with the Turnwreft Plow,
136.
Raifing them on unculturable Steeps, 137-
Farther Information collected on this Sub-
ject, 138.
In the Southern Counties,
In the Midland Counties,
In the Highlands of Scotland.
On cleaning the Intervals of Seedling
Woods, 139.
On TRAINING young Timber OAKS for SHIP-
BUILDING, amply treated of, 139.
On TRAINING LARCHES, for SHIP TIMBER,
Methods of raifing Grove Timber, 148.
Method of Training, 149.
On thinning Grove Timbers, 150.
On pruning them, 151.
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