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be attended to in the same way ; it must not be un- 

 derstood that I limit any particular distance for these 

 ornamental trees to be thinned out just now; I would 

 rather prefer keeping them close as otherwise, parti- 

 cularly on the exposed sides, taking special care not 

 to allow another tree to stand so close as to whip the 

 standing tree ; thin gradually out, although it should 

 be the work of several years. In determining on 

 those trees that are to be reared up, it is most proper 

 to keep them in regular distances, and that I would 

 in this place circumscribe to be not more than twenty- 

 four feet, (when finished thinning,) every way, but 

 where having open sides, either one or tw r o ways, they 

 may stand closer ; observe, that although I intend 

 the trees that are to be reared up to perpetuity, so 

 to speak, to stand at regular distances of twenty-four 

 feet, yet they are not to be thinned out to this for a 

 succession of years, only a due regard must be had to 

 it in first determining on all such trees ; sometimes 

 it may so happen that a less tree than its neighbour 

 may be selected to stand, and the largest or most 

 aspiring taken away ; provided it be equally healthy 

 and thriving, as it many times happens, the smallest 

 is the best, both as to situation, kind, and figure ; 

 sometimes a tree of this kind may be more properly 

 toped down than taken out ; as it should be always 

 understood that the ground here must be kept full 

 of underwood, which should be only reared to go no 

 higher than the undermost branches of the large trees, 

 and only to keep pace with them ; this is most easily 

 effected where the underwood consists of growths 

 from stools of oak, elm, &c, as the aspiring shoots 

 can be now and then cut away, and the more dwarfy 

 allowed to come up on the ground ; however, where 



