FOREST-TREES. 3- 



THE method of pruning here directed 

 may feetn to take a great deal of labour, 

 and be a very great expence, more than the 

 advantage the trees will repay. By being 

 pruned the trees will be of a much greater 

 value, and the expence will not be much, 

 if regularly performed every year. As to 

 the pulling the young moots at the proper 

 feafon, for then they will come off very 

 eafy, a man will go through a great many 

 trees in a day, even if they are large ; for 

 although the directions are long, they could 

 not be abridged to be made plain, as they 

 are not in general practice ; but when once 

 they are regularly carried on, they will not 

 be expenfive, and will anfwer beyond the 

 moft fanguine expectation, 



WHEN the trees are fmall and can be 

 eafily bent, they may be pruned and pull- 

 ed by the hand, {landing on the ground ; 

 but when the trees are become ftron<r and 



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{tiff, it is not a g'ood way to bend them, 

 for although they may feem to receive' no 

 hurt, it certainly .{trains the bark on both 

 fides, and muit be a great detriment. 



