W2 ON THICK PLANTING 



be cut off a foot from the body of the 

 tree ; and it will be abfolutely neceflary to 

 pull oft" the young moots in fummer, that 

 Ihoot from the places where the large 

 branches were cut off; for as they ft and 

 foopen, they will pufh many ftrong moots, 

 which will be more detrimental to the tree, 

 if not pulled off, than if it had never been 

 cut ; for there are often to be feen trees 

 that have had large branches cut off, and 

 then neglected for four or five years, and 

 then cut again, with their whole bodies 

 one continued blemifh. 



THIS is the error that the workers, in 

 wood fo juftly complain of, and it is in 

 general imputed to the pruning of timber- 

 trees ; but it is not regular pruning, but 

 the negiecl of performing it properly that 

 is the occafion of this diiafter. 



IT mould be obferved, that none of the 

 directions here given will aniwer with any 

 of the turpentine kinds, as they never 

 fhoot after cutting; fo if there are any 



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