ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. [Jan. 



much pruned or thinned as the interior, at leaft 

 for a great while of its infancy, 



Fir Groves require the fame treatment with 

 Larch Groves in regard to pruning, fave in the 

 c?fe of the Scots Fir, which is apt to put forth 

 (hong and rampant fide-branches on the Skirts of 

 the plantation, which muft be timeoufly attended 

 to and reduced within proper bounds. 



PRUNING OF MASSES, 



This fpecies of plantation is more nearly alliec} 

 to general fore ft plantation, than the preceding. 

 Neverthelefs, the foregoing obfervations in refpecl: 

 to pruning, will apply equally to it. If it be a 

 mixture of Hard-wood, Larch, and Fir, thefe refpec- 

 tive kinds muft be individually treated as above di- 

 rected. And the ildrts of the mafs, and more efpe- 

 cially the margin moft to windward, and to the 

 view, muft be kept thick, and leaft pruned. 



PRUNING OF BELTS AND STRIPES. 



The pruning of ftripes, or narrow belts, is one 

 of the molt Difficult parts of the forefter's em- 

 ployment. He may go on wdl enough fur per* 

 haps ten or fifteen years ; but afterwards thefe nar- 

 row ftripes become naked and bare. Indeed ftripes 



ihould 



