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LANDSCAPK GAKDENING. 



are within the reach of very moderate means, and are 

 peculiarly worth attention in this country, where so much 

 has already been partially, and often badly executed. 



Where there are large masses of wood to regulate and 

 arrange, much skill, taste, and judgment, are requisite, to 

 enable the proprietors to preserve only what is really 

 beautiful and picturesque, and to remove all that is super- 

 fluous. Most of our native woods, too, have grown so 

 closely, and the trees are consequently so much drawn up, 

 that should the improver thin out any portion, at once, to 

 single trees, he will be greatly disappointed if he expects 

 them to stand long ; for the first severe autumnal gale 

 will almost certainly prostrate them. The only method, 

 therefore, is to allow them to remain in groups of con- 

 siderable size at first, and to thin them out as is finally 

 desired, when they have made stronger roots and become 

 nice inured to the influence of the sun and air.* 



But to return to grouping ; what we have already en- 

 deavored to render familiar to the reader, may be called 



• When, in thiuning woods in this manner, those left standing have a mea- 

 gre appearance, a luxuriant growth may be promoted by the application of 

 manure plentifully dug in about the roots. This will also, by causing an abun- 

 dant growth of new roots, strengthen the trees in their position. 



