Jan."] PRUNING, &c. 151 



mould always, if poflible, be of fome coniider- 

 able breadth, and then their treatment would ap- 

 proach more nearly to that of mafles, or ordi- 

 nary foreft plantation : The only difference in 

 this cafe would be, that they mould be rather lefs 

 pruned, and efpecially on the Ikirts ; the heads, 

 although pruned into a fpiral form, mould be left 

 proportionally longer or better feathered than a- 

 bove recommended for mafles and groves. 



PRUNING SCREEN PLANTATIONS. 



Screen plantations are, as implied in their name, 

 intended either to fhelter from the wind, or to 

 cover fome difagreeable object from the view. 

 Screen plantations, therefore, are generally fur- 

 nifhed with a flock of underwood, fuch as Holly, 

 Yew, Laurel, Spruce, Hazel and the like. 



The pruning of the principal or timber trees 

 in the fcreen plantation, may be confidered as al- 

 ready pointed out ; fave only, that their heads 

 mould be kept longer than thofe either of the 

 grove or mafs trees ; or like thofe above recom- 

 mended for trees on the fkirts of narrow ftripes or 

 belts. The underwood mould be encouraged 

 to rife up to their refpeclive proper heights, not by 

 pruning them, (for they mould not feel the knife), 

 but by removing the fhadowing branches of the 

 principals, as much as the circumflances of the 



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