3 S OF PRUNING 



WHEN the boles are fo weak that they 

 cannot bear a ladder, and are too ftiff to 

 bend, the beft way is to have a light pair 

 of fleps fix or eight feet high, which will 

 be a fufficient length to clear the bole until 

 it is ftrong enough to bear a common lad- 

 der ; and the common pruning irons will 

 drefs the tops r there mould be three 

 fizes of them ; they are called half-moons. 



THE management and right ordering 

 plantations on good, or even middling land, 

 is of the utmoft confequence ; and nnlefs 

 they are properly taken eare of will never 

 be very fine timber. Trees on good land, 

 will thrive, and there will be many fine 

 ones amongft them, although there is no 

 care taken of them after planting ; but 

 there will be many bad ones to one good 

 tree. If they had been drefied, all or 

 the greateft part of them would have been 



good timber. 







THERE are to be feen in natural woods, 

 and alfo in plantations, many mere bufhes- 



vvith 



