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been triecl^ io amend it, — and tried in 

 vain. 



If the foregoing be the true state of 

 the case, it must be obvious that the real 

 defects of the article are reduced to a 

 small compass, namely Knottiness, the 

 consequence of the natural form of the 

 plants, and want of density, the conse- 

 quence of quick growth. For the 

 sake of order, the reader is referred to 

 the article pruning, Avhere a preven- 

 tive for the former defect will be clearly 

 pointed out, and therefore, for the present, 

 our attention must be principally direct^ 

 ed to the latter. 



Dr. Smith observes, in his Essay oil 

 the production of Timber, in the first 

 Vol. of the Transactions of the Highland 

 Society, 185,— that *' the Scotch Firs 

 *' growing naturally in the upper part of 

 " Argyleshire, and also in the north 

 " Highlands, as also at Braemar, at the 



