THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



NOVEMBER 1st, 1837. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON PRUNING, THINNING, &c. OF TREES IN PLANTATIONS, WITH 

 OTHER REMARKS UPON THEM. 



BY MR. JOSHUA MAJOR, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL GARDENER, 

 KNOSTHORPE, NEAR LEEDS. 



I have taken the liberty of sending you a few remarks on the 

 very defective manner in which plantations are generally man- 

 aged, as far as regards ornament,, hiding disagreeable objects and 

 effecting convenient and secure places of retirement ; trusting 

 through the medium of your widely circulated Cabinet, should 

 you deem them worthy of insertion, that my remarks may have 

 some tendency towards abolishing the evil I have to complain 

 of. 



I find wherever I travel, and in whatever country my profes- 

 sion calls me, very great and glaring defects in plantations, 

 arising in nine cases out of ten from the want of judicious and 

 early thinning. Now, could we but persuade gentlemen, and 

 persons who have the management of such plantations to com- 

 mence thinning a few years after planting, and to continue to do 

 so, at least once in two or three years, as it is necessary, the de- 

 fects I complain of would be prevented, and the ohjects I have 

 in view would be effectually attained. 



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