TO HIS GARDENER 41 



and planting. However I sent 200 Elms and if I had known 

 a little sooner I would have sent you 2000 gathered out of 

 Hedges, as he will tell you I also sent 100 and odd with 



the leaf white on one side.^ They rise high as you know, make 

 a good show with other trees, make fine white Boards and are 

 used by Turners and many other uses. I wrote particularly to 

 Alex** about thes ^ Elms, and need not repeat what I said to 

 him. You dont tell me how many English Elms you have 

 laid or how many you have. I wish you will lay all you can 

 by any means. I shall be glad to know particularly what 

 Nurseries of each kind you have the Sizes etc. 



give them their last sneding and clear 

 the bodies of the trees a good way up, and cut away such trees 

 entirely which will not be good to give more air to the others, 

 and also that the others may have three years of all the sap 

 which the roots can afford. Don't let him be sparing either 

 in cutting out such trees or in sneding up the bodies of the 

 good to a height. I know he is sparing in this way, but if he 

 can be prevailed upon to do it right for or 4^ years growth 



where thus thinned will mend the Trees much. Sneding or 

 cutting out when the Wood is within a year or two of cutting 

 leaves an eye sore and the trees have no time to gain by growth. 

 I wish he will go presently through one year's cutting. I mean 

 what will be for cutting in the Summer 1737 and so next year 

 for 1738 and so on. I would have you go a little now and 

 then to him and see that he is not sparing but clears well up 

 as he goes. This month is the proper time, and against peeling 

 time let him do the like to the Oaks in that same Hag. What 

 Trees you take out of the Haining or other places where thick 



^ This must be the service or sorbus tree {pyrus torminalis)^ for which Herts is 

 famous. It grows well in towns and has a fine show of foliage. The * Turners ' 

 are specially the muggers who made wooden vessels, in general use then. 



- A slip for 'these.' 



3 This undated letter belongs to December 1733 (i737 - 4= i733)' 



