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spectability of the look of the stripe, for some years, 

 such trees should be carefully selected and marked 

 off to stand, and the whole of the polish and dwarf- 

 ish trees to be cut and immediately disposed of, and 

 the stools of all the oak, ash, elm, and plane trees 

 properly dressed up for the growth, so as to rear up 

 either for standing trees to supply the place of those 

 taken out, or to convert into coppice for underwood. 

 But where none of these kinds of trees are, it would 

 be proper to put in oak and Spanish chesnut plants; 

 but where these kinds are, although only one in num- 

 ber, the whole breadth of the stripe may be filled up 

 by layering as aforesaid, without the expense of 

 planting. By a careful attention to this, the stripes 

 and belts may, in the course of a very few years, be 

 brought into a proper state. Trees to stand in belts 

 of this kind should never be pruned after they are 

 above six feet high, and thinned out before they ex- 

 ceed sixteen feet, to proper distances, in order to give 

 them room to branch out. 



No. LIII. 



Same kind of Belts and Stripes on a different Estate 

 in another part of the Country. 



At the time the belts of planting we are now among 

 were laid off and planted, say upwards of sixty years 

 ago, it was customary with professional men, with a 

 view to the saving of land, to lay them off' very nar- 

 row in the belts and stripes, and equally circumscrib- 

 ed in the size of the clumps, although their very de- 

 sign was to give clothing, screen, shelter, and orna- 

 ment to a bare, bleak, and naked country ; and the 



