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fide-branchcs but juft at the top, they 

 would be very liable to be much toffed 

 and hurt by the wind if thinned too much 

 ;it firft ; beiides, if they are expofed to the 

 free air all at once, many of them will be 

 in danger of perifhing, for they are very 

 tender by being fo many years without a 

 free air paffing amongft them. 



IF fuch thickets are defigned for timber- 

 trees only, and were planted at three feet 

 diftance at firft, let all the large branches 

 of the trees be cut off the firft year, and 

 none the next year. 



STUB up every other tree, and mark the 

 trees that are to ftand, and let them be 

 pruned and drefled according to the direc- 

 tions for pruning. The other trees that 

 are to be taken up, fbould have the long 

 branches cut oft" and ftand till next winter, 

 and then ftubbed : by this method the 

 trees will have the free air admitted amongft: 

 {hem gradually; and if they are afterwards 



pruned 



