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trees in this field should be thinned out immediately. 

 From the length of the trees it must be done sparing- 

 ly and gradually, taking particular care to leave 

 always the longest lived, most healthy, and what is 

 likely to be even the most ornamental trees, and rear 

 them up to maturity ; save the spruce firs and take 

 away the larch, where there is a choice, as the larch 

 firs will not live to be large trees in this situation. 



No. XXIX. 



Racecourse Field. 



The whole of the detached old trees, with the strips 

 round the outsides, should be carefully kept up as 

 trees; not one of them taken down as long as they will 

 stand. There is also a round clump of old trees in 

 this field which should be kept up ; from its exposed 

 situation nothing should be cut out of it ; where blanks 

 occur, fill them up as recommended in plantation No. 

 XXIV. In this field is another young strip of plant- 

 ing ; this on the south requires a little thinning, and if 

 done judiciously, will be of great advantage to it; from 

 its exposed situation this must be done gradually, till 

 the trees stand at equal distances of about eighteen 

 feet, tree from tree, at which, on the top of this bank 

 and on all the exposed places, they may stand as a 

 finished plantation ; where there is a choice, take 

 away the larch fir, and spare any other tree in pre- 

 ference. The trees in this field, called Daly's Wood, 

 or Bottom of the Course, are for the greater part 

 very thriving, and will grow till they become of very 

 large size in such a situation. Here, with great pro- 



