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first pruning takes place. This, however, 

 must be understood to apply, principally, 

 to very thick plantations, as no doubt is 

 entertained, but that trees, at four feet 

 apart, would all pay for such attention ; 

 as, when pruned, they might stand to 

 grow tolerable poles, — but those who 

 choose it, may, however, attend to the 

 selected plants only; tinning out or taking 

 off the heads of others, from time to time, 

 in the way that has been directed. 



As it would be tedious to thin the heads 

 of Firs, in the same manner as deciduous 

 trees, there is so much the more necessity 

 to attend carefully to the matter of dis- 

 tances; for, where they are properly ma- 

 naged, the former may be trained with 

 less trouble than the latter; because, in 

 consequence of growing with closer heads, 

 the lower branches do not enlarge so 

 freely, in the first place ; and are, like- 

 wise, for the same reason, subject to decay 

 much sooner ; and besides, they do not 



