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I commend a study of adjacent specimens within the park and 

 in Piccadilly. Unfortunately the Piccadilly type is that which is 

 too commonly found in thoroughfares, and is the cause of the 

 frequent condemnation of the use of the pruning-knife on street 

 trees. A photograph of a park tree and a Piccadilly tree side 

 by side would be an interesting object lesson to circulate along 

 with the photograph which I suggested above. The perfection 

 of pruning seen in the park is rare, and it is matter for con- 

 gratulation that there is being prepared in this way within the 

 park a heritage of fine trees for the admiration and gratification 

 of generations to come. 



After what I have said above, the Board will not be surprised 

 that I make no suggestion of alteration in procedure in the 

 treatment of the trees. The staff which has brought the trees so 

 successfully through their first juvenile stages may be safely 

 trusted to apply sound scientific principles in the treatment of 

 the trees through their later years of adolescence, and to modify, 

 practise, and adjust it to the immediate and prospective require- 

 ments of the trees. The trees are in the making, and the Board 

 may with confidence ask those who are disposed to criticise 

 adversely the method of procedure pursued to recognise this, and 

 to await with patience the gradual evolution of the avenue of 

 stately trees for which the foundation has been securely laid. 



5. On the best method of Planting at High Altitudes 

 and in Exposed Situations, and the best Species of 

 Trees to plant there with the object of procuring 

 (a) Shelter for Stock, and (6) A profitable Timber 

 Crop. 



( WM a Plate.) 



By A. W. B. Edwards, Forester, Thirlmere Estate. 



The Thirlmere estate, belonging to the Manchester Corpora- 

 tion, is one of the sources of the water supply of Manchester, 

 and is situated in the heart of the Lake District ; it comprises 

 some 1 1, GOO acres of a catchment area. The surface of the 

 lake when full is nearly 600 feet above sea-level, and the 

 altitude of Helvellyn, the highest point of the hills surrounding 

 it, is 31 18 feet. The ground mostly rises very abruptly from 



