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which has no parallel in the management of any 

 other description of property. 



But this is a digression : I pass on, therefore, 

 to the question of pruning, on which I would 

 again commend to the notice of my readers, the 

 valuable remarks of Mr. Main, as well as some 

 excellent practical observations from the pen of 

 that veteran in the service, Francis Blakie, Esq., 

 late Steward to the Earl of Leicester, from whose 

 small pamphlet, entitled "A Treatise on the Man- 

 agement of Hedges and Hedge-row Timber," the 

 most useful information may be gathered. 



Mr. Main's is an able and lucid examination 

 of the question of pruning, and, to my thinking, 

 most fully and satisfactorily settles it. He shows 

 that when pruning is properly done, and when it 

 is commenced early enough, and so managed as to 

 secure the desired result in fifteen or twenty years, 

 it may not only be done with safety, and without 

 material injury to the timber, but that no other 

 plan or practice will answer so well. This he 

 clearly proves upon scientific data, familiarly illus- 

 trated by numerous plates, and confirmed by 

 practical statements. 



