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CHAP. VI. 



ON THINNING AND PRUNING OLD PLANTATIONS 

 WHICH HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED. 





SECTION I. 



The Advantages derived from timely and judicious 

 Thinning ; and the Disadvantages preceding from 

 Neglect. 



THE ADVANTAGES are, 1st. Producing 

 healthy, sound timber, and being ena- 

 bled to train it for any useful purpose what- 

 ever from infancy. 



C 2dly. In cases of mixture, by proper at- 

 tention, being enabled to judge which kinds 

 the soil suits best. This is done with less 

 difficulty when the trees have full freedom 

 of space than when they are suffered to run 

 into confusion. The inclination of each is 

 more clearly evident, being in this case un- 

 forced and disencumbered. 



