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performed with tolerable fafety ; but if is 

 not to be recommended as a good practice- 

 The befl method is to plant them in? 

 clumps, even on good land, at ten feet 

 diftance tree from tree, and they will 

 prune themfelves. 



BUT if Silver or Spruce Firs are in- 

 tended for ornament, they mould have 

 fifty feet at leaft, and they will make a 

 fine ihew ; but as the ground round would 

 look naked for many years, the number 

 intended to ftand mould be planted firfr, 

 and then the fpaces between may be filled, 

 fo that they may ftand at ten feet diftance; 

 but they mould be removed before the 

 branches meet, for if they are deftroyed 

 it fpoils their beauty. 



IF there is a ncceilJty to prune Firs ar 

 Pines that hang over and fpoil better trees, 

 it fhould be. done in the winter, and 

 no" branches be cut nearer than two 

 feet to the bole ; for if they are cut clofe 

 they make a blemiih, but if' cut long they 

 .decay gradually nd do no hijrt. 



