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elms very much destroyed by cutting off the branch- 

 es ; if this was necessary, as is said to be the case here, 

 why not cut them close into the trunk of the tree, 

 and dress and cover up the wound. Nothing can be 

 more disgusting to the eye than to see trees mangled 

 in this form, nor can any thing be more ruinous 

 to the health of the tree. All such branches should 

 be immediately cut close, and dressed up as recom- 

 mended in plantation No. IV. 



No. XXXII. 



Trees about the Garden. 



As these trees both afford excellent shelter to the 

 garden and mansion, and are also very ornamental, 

 the whole of them should be kept up as long as pos- 

 sible with the greatest care, and those only taken 

 out after they become perfectly dead before their 

 timber grows useless, and other trees put in and rear- 

 ed up in their places ; dress up their wounds as in 

 No. IV. All trees for shelter should be kept closer 

 on the ground than in a plantation, particularly about 

 a garden. Supposing large trees to be singled out to 

 24 feet, tree from tree, or at most 30 feet, they should 

 always be thinned out so as another tree might stand 

 in the gap betwixt each of them, and underwood 

 should be reared betwixt them, covering the naked 

 trunks of the large trees. 



