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changed not seldomer than once a week ; the same species 

 not being more than twice introduced during the same season. 

 All the trees and shrubs to be kept without dead wood, per- 

 fectly free from caterpillars, aphides, curl'ed leaves, honey- 

 dew, leaves which have been killed, or branches which have 

 been broken accidentally, and from flowers or fruits which 

 have decayed and not dropped. 



" The climbers or twiners to be kept tied up ; the spaces 

 around the trees free from weeds ; the seats quite clean ; the 

 name tallies in complete repair ; the boundary fence, lodges 

 and gates in complete repair, and the laborers and their wives 

 and families, who attend on persons who enter the garden or 

 the lodges, clean and neatly dressed. 



" This may be considered as the criterion of good regular 

 management ; but there are certain points to which I wish to. 

 direct the special attention of the curator and of the public, 

 and especially of the public press. 



" The first point respects pruning. On no account what- 

 ever is the knife to be applied to any of the trees or shrubs, 

 except in the following cases : — For the purpose of cutting 

 out dead wood, branches broken by the wind or by accident, 

 dead or decayed flowers or fruit, or for removing the suckers 

 or side shoots which come out below the grafts of such spe- 

 cies or varieties as have been budded or grafted. No decay- 

 ing leaves whatever, and no ripe fruit are on any account to 

 be cut off"; but leaves which wither or are killed in the 

 course of the summer may be removed as soon as they are 

 perceived. 



" Pruning is prohibited, in order that every plant may 

 show its natural shape and habit of growth ; whether by 

 growing erect, spreading horizontally, or throwing suckers 

 up, or rambling shoots out on every side. The suckers are 

 not even to be thinned out, but every plant is to be allowed 

 as perfect a freedom of growth as if it were in its native 

 habitat. 



" The only exception is, such climbing, twining, or trailing 

 plants as are to be trained up to the rods or props prepared 

 for them, instead of allowing them to trail on the ground ; 



