170 THE MANAGEMENT 



with ib many of the fide-branches on, that 

 by the middle of fummer it would have 

 been very difficult to know at a little dif- 

 tance, but that the trees had been grow- 

 ing in that place feveral years. 



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IF trees that are very tall and have 

 ftiff boles are to be removed, if they are 

 Gripped <( which is very often the cafe) of 

 all their fide- branches, they grow to a. 

 great bufh at top, and are in danger of be- 

 ing broke ; but if there had been many 

 large branches left pretty thick on the 

 bole, the tree would bear the wmd muck 

 better, as it would then have all bent 

 equally, been in no danger of being broke, 

 made a finer tree> 



THE difficulty of planting trees that 

 have been a long time in a thicket, is ? 

 that they have very few fide-branches, aiid 

 thofe that they have are very long. They 

 thould be Shortened to two feet long, and 

 the top, which is generally very bufhy, 

 |ho\dd be thinned by cutting out fome of 



