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where the one tree is evidently destroying its neigh- 

 bouring tree, or destroying each other, so as both 

 will shortly die if not remedied, is to cut over one of 

 the trees for a pollard ; in so doing, the greatest at- 

 tention and skill is requisite, taking care to cut it as 

 high up as it possibly can be done, to clear and re- 

 lieve the other tree, leaving always all the healthy 

 branches on the outside of the pollard ; and rather 

 than cut the main trunk of the tree not to be the 

 pollard, take a branch or two off the side of it that is 

 injuring the tree to remain. Suppose another case, 

 when two trees are very close together, and one of 

 them could be spared altogether, should one of them 

 be taken away all at once, the top of the tree left 

 will be, most likely, completely bare of branches 

 on the one side, — the side pressed on by the other 

 tree — and will have a miserable appearance as a tree, 

 and it is ten to one if ever it will have a proper look 

 as an ornamental tree. To remedy this, and to have 

 in a few years a beautiful tree, cut as a pollard, the 

 most healthy and best of the two trees, say the one 

 intended to stand as the most ornamental tree, keep- 

 ing, as abovementioned, the trunk of it as high as pos- 

 sible, and all the healthy branches on it below where 

 the trunk is cut, allowing the other tree to stand so 

 as not only to shelter it till it sends out its new bran- 

 ches, and forms its top, but also to keep the space 

 full with the look of a tree till such time as the pol- 

 lard has formed its top properly, when the other tree 

 may be taken away ; and no deficiency of a tree will 

 be perceivable, as the pollard will soon cover much 

 more ground than they did both together, and be a 

 much more beautiful tree than one standing with 



