222 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



injury arising from boisterous winds, by 

 keeping the margins, and all points much 

 exposed, considerably thicker than the interior 

 or sheltered parts. If the plantation is much 

 overgrown, thick, and stands elevated, it may 

 be found proper to set aside and prune up 

 temporary trees, as above, (perhaps baring 

 them of branches on one side entirely) in 

 order to give place to plants deemed worthy 

 of standing for good, and which, by re- 

 moving the former at once, might be en- 

 dangered. 



At a subsequent revision, in a few years, 

 such pruned-up temporary trees, and others 

 of little value which can be spared, should 

 be removed; thinning out the whole, as re- 

 gularly as possible, to the distance of from 

 thirty to forty feet, according to circum- 

 stances, as already hinted. 



In plantations of this age, and, indeed, in 

 all close woods, it would be imprudent to 

 stub the trees up by the roots, which are 

 thinned out; because, by doing so, the roots 

 of those left standing might be injured. They 

 will, long ere this, have extended their roots 

 over the whole surface: many of their fibrey 



