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ADVICE RESPECTING THE MANAGE- 

 MENT OF TIMBER. 



NO trees ought to be difmembered 

 of their branches without abfolute 

 neceffity; fuch treatment is very prejudi- 

 cial to all forts of timber. But where 

 trees hang over roads, and buildings, it 

 cannot fometimes be difpenfed with. 

 Where this happens, the limbs fliould 

 be taken off clofe to the tree, and the 

 place where it grew planed quite fmooth, 

 that the wet may not hang upon the 

 part. If the tree be young, and thrifty, 

 the wound will quickly heal, and the 

 blemi(h be covered 5 but when trees arc 

 hacked in the branches, and left jagged, 

 the wet hangs upon them, and by de- 

 grees rots them quite into the heart. 

 Thinning timber is a very elTcntial 

 O 3 part. 



