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A Treatise Upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House
A Treatise Upon Planting Gardening and the Management of the HotHouse Author:John Kennedy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. On Sowing Tree-Seeds with Corn. O OWING tree-feeds amongft corn is an exceeding good method, for it prevents the vermin deftroying the trees as t... more »hey come out df the ground; moft trees bring up the feed with the firfl leaf, and all birds are fond of them, and often deftroy whole fields as they come up. This method fhould not be attempted on fields that have been in grafs, but fuch as have been in corn for fome time. Ff it were rich deep land, it would be a very good method to have a crop of underwood ; but bare poor land is our prefent fubject, therefore I fhall give proper directions for raifing a field of good timber-trees on fuch land. The ground fhould be plowed in autumn, and early in the fpring fown with a thin crop of oats. If the feeds are dry, and not prepared, they fhould be fown at the fame time; but if prepared feeds are ufed, which are much preferable, the middle of April is the proper feafon. The large feeds may be planted? with a fetting-ftick, not too fharp at the point, at three feet diftance, three or four feeds in a place at four inches apart and two inches deep. The rough-leaved Elm, Larches, Scotch Firs, Silver and Spruce Firs, and Pinafters muft not be planted with the fetting-ftick, but the ground hollowed out half an inch, and three or four feeds dropped into each place at four inches diftance, and preffed a little down with the hand, then covered with mould level. The proper feeds to be fown, even in poor land, amongft corn, are Oak, Beech, Black Cherry, Spanifh Chefnut, Hornbeam, Silver and Spruce Firs, the Scotch Fir, Larches, and Pinafter; and if the ground is inclined to fand, Sycamore, Horfe Chefnut, and Limes may alfo be planted. Although the ground is not the pro- pereft for all the trees here mentioned, the growing ...« less