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 ORNAMENTAL TREES, 8sc. 



In regard to the general methods of 

 pruning, recommended, it may possibly 

 be suspected, that they are only calculat- 

 ed to produce a sameness ofform^ which, 

 it is admitted, would, in some situations, 

 be highly disgusting ; but certainly such 

 idea is completely groundless, as the same 

 principles, which instruct us how to con- 

 duct the greater part of the sap to one 

 part of a tree, will naturally suggest the 

 means of doing the same to another; and 

 hence we easily cause it to grow freely, 

 the soil being supposed proper,) in any 

 form the mind can conceive, or the pencil 

 sketch ; provided such form be not in- 

 compatible with the free circulation of the 

 sap. Plence, in works of fancy and orna- 

 ment, we have very superior advantages. 



It is unnecessary to wait till blind 

 chance shall dictate what sort of fiirure 

 any favourite tree, or a number of such, 



