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as to injure it; this should be carefully attended to 

 when healthy trees are pollarded. When it is old 

 decaying trees. See No. V. p. 56. 



Plate II. Fig. 2. — This is intended for a represen- 

 tation of the converting of natural growths or stools 

 into standing timber trees ; see this method also ful- 

 ly explained in Forester's Guide. Beautiful growths 

 of this description are to be seen in many places - 9 

 but it must have struck every person with delight on 

 passing those on the public road near Stirling, to 

 Dumbarton, and betwixt Thornhill and Dumfries. 

 See the propriety and profits of this method, No. 

 XII. p. 69. 



Plate II. Fig. 3. — Represents a coppice stool hav- 

 ing been properly cut and thinned out in time ; the 

 shoots to the left shows them occupying new ground, 

 from roots laid open, rearing from the old stool. 

 See No. XI. p. 66. 



Fig. 4. — Represents a tree cut high above the sur- 

 face of the ground, so that the shoots or wafers never 

 come to be of any value either as to wood or bark, 

 and are always loose and apt to be broken off by snow 

 or otherwise. 



Fig. 5. — Represents something of the same kind, 

 which method of cutting should always be guarded 

 against, as it is never productive. See this fully ex- 

 plained in the Forester's Guide. 



Plate II. Fig. 6. — This is a representation of a tree 

 growing by way of miracle, from an old stool, never 

 having been enclosed or cared for ; yet had grown 

 up both to be useful timber and beautiful ; but see 

 the contrast in point of value, betwixt this and Fig. 2. 

 which had been enclosed. See No. XII. p. 6'9. 



Plate III — Spanish chesnut at Riccarton. See 

 *itle page, and an account of the tree elsewhere. 



