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On the farm, prune all hedgerow trees immediately the crops are 

 removed. "We prefer autumn to summer pruning, as the process of 

 cicatrization is more perfect. 



Ballinacourtc, TipiKvanj. D. Sy>[ ScOTT. 



WALES. 



Continue enclosing, clearing, and preparing ground for planting as 

 last month. Where new fencing is necessary throughout in high- 

 lying ground we adopt wire fences, erected with seven wires, stapled 

 to wooden posts five feet apart, with iron terminal and training posts. 

 Where the ground is favourable, thorn, or a mixed thorn and Leech 

 hedge may be planted within the wire fence, and, if not already done, 

 the bed should be prepared for receiving the plants by trenching, &c. 



The clearing of whins, brambles, and other brush, is generally done 

 with strong shortwhin scythesor hooks, and then burned on the ground. 

 Draining should be proceeded with ; the depth of drains and distance 

 apart to be ascertained, according to the nature and wetness of the 

 ground, but eight to ten yards apart will be an average distance for 

 open drains two to two and a half feet deep, and three and a half feet 

 wide at top. 



Continue the switching of hedges, and pruning of forest trees. 



Eeniove and transplant evergreens with good balls, and water 

 freely. The ground in which they are to be transplanted should be 

 well prepared by trenching, &c., and improved by adding a quantity 

 of decayed turf and leaf mould, which promotes the growth of new 

 roots ; and the plants should be kept rather above the natural surface 

 of the ground. 



Kinmel Parh. Lewis Baynf. 



The Omnivorous Caterpillar. 



All owners of trees should take advantage of the present season to 

 apply the prevention or means of destruction of the caterpillar, recently so 

 successfully introduced in European parks. The plan is simple, and un- 

 attended with peril to the tree. Bore a small gimlet hole into the trunk 

 of the tree, about a yard from the ground, penetrating at the depth of one- 

 third the diameter. Fill this hole with the flour of sulphur, and then plug 

 the aperture with wood. The rising sap will carry the sulphureous nn- 

 preguation to the furthest extremity of every twig and leaf, and no 

 caterpillar, even of the most infernal origin, can exist upon the tree. — 

 American Paper. 



[AVhether the above is much known in England, or whether the writer 

 merely assumes that it is a European custom in order to give force to his 

 assertion of the efficacy of his nostrum, we are not aware. Certainly, if 

 the caterpillar tribe can be thus easily banished from trees, the fact cannot 

 be too widely known. — En. /. F.']. 



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