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good and safe method of pruning such 

 young trees as are intended to grow into 

 long, clean, and straight timber. For, 

 knowing that our business is to consolidate 

 nature's efforts, as much as possible, to 

 one point, we consider branches as no 

 further useful, than as subservient to the 

 purposes of the stem ; and finding that 

 small ones are every way perferable to 

 such as are large, the head and stem of 

 the plant are constantly kept light, by 

 thinning out all the largest branches, every 

 time the tree is pruned. 



PL V, is intended to give a more clear 

 idea of the method of pruning such sub- 

 jects. No. 1, is a supposed figure of a 

 tree which has been planted small, and 

 grown three or four years. No. 2, exhi- 

 bits the same figure pruned. No. 3, is a 

 supposed figure of the same tree, three 

 years afterwards, and No. 4, is the same, 

 or any similar figure, pruned. 



