146 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. 



hedge-row ; but as the next month is a more pro- 

 per feafon, we mail defer our particular directions 

 for planting till that time ; which fee. 



OF PRUNING ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. 



THIS fubjecl: will naturally arrange itfelf under 

 the refpeclive heads into which we have divided 

 ^ornamental plantation ; as groves, niafles, ftripes, 

 hedge-row, and detached trees and groups ; to- 

 gether with fcreen plantations. While all thefe 

 are profefledly for ornament, we mall endeavour 

 to ftudy utility, in directing the operation of 

 pruning j and we mall treat of the pruning of 

 each fpecies of plantation feparately. It muft al- 

 ways be kept in mind, that pruning is a matter of 

 the higheft importance, both to the health, the 

 vigour, the beauty, and the utility of timber and 

 ornamental trees. 



PRUNING OF GROVES OF DECIDUOUS TREES* 



THE profefled objeft, in this cafe, is to acquire 

 tall, clean-ftemmed trees. This end cannot be 

 attained without thick planting, and alfo a con- 

 fiderable breadth of it. Yet thefe alone, would 

 never accomplifh it without the aid of judicious 

 pruning. 



The pruning of groves of deciduous trees, 



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