. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. PLANTING. 61 executed, there will be few failures. When tliese happen, however, the vacancies must be filled uj), at the proper season, with stout plants, and the holes be properly prepared for the reception of the roots. It is a j^ood practice for the first two or three years of a trenched ])lantation to take a crop of potatoes, man2:el wurzel, or carrots, accordin"- to circumstances. The rule, which must be strictly adhered to in the introduction of these crops
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. PLANTING. 61 executed, there will be few failures. When tliese happen, however, the vacancies must be filled uj), at the proper season, with stout plants, and the holes be properly prepared for the reception of the roots. It is a j^ood practice for the first two or three years of a trenched ])lantation to take a crop of potatoes, man2:el wurzel, or carrots, accordin"- to circumstances. The rule, which must be strictly adhered to in the introduction of these crops, is, that no part of the foliag-e or tops of the ^rieen crop touch or even approximate near to the yoiuin- trees ; a rule of practice which, if broken through, produces equal damage as from a rampant crop of weeds to the plantation. Second. There are three different kinds or modes of prunino-, which, in practice, have been named close pruning {a. Jig. 11). Snag pruning (6), and foreshortening (c). By leaving a snag (6) of the branch, it in time forms a blemish in the timber, in con- sequence of young wood forming round the stump, and embedding it in the tree. Snag pruning is the most rude and injudicious mode that can be practised, being invariably attended with injury to the quality of the timber: it should never be adopted under any circumstances whatever. Close pnmino* (fi) is performed by sawing or cutting otF a branch close to its parent stem or primary leading branch (r). This is the only mode to be adopted in training, or rather improving", the stem or bole of a tree, or wherever it is desirable that no reproduction of branches from the point should follow. The most perfect manner of executing the work is to saw the branch off close to the parent stem, and smooth any roughness that may be left on the surface of the woimd with a sharp knife, taking care not to reduce the edges of the bark which surround the wound more than is actually necessary to remove the lacerat
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