Jan.~\ PRUNING* 175 



new fcheme of management, but to call the at* 

 tention to eflablifhed principles, which are well 

 known to produce the moft beneficial effeds. 



We have already been particular in our obferv- 

 ations on pruning Deciduous grove plantations 

 for the prefent month. We have ihown that the 

 pruning of fuch trees fhould commence at a very 

 early period. Indeed, plants fhould never be fent 

 from the nurfery to be planted out in the foreft, 

 without having previoufly undergone, in fome 

 meafure, the operation of pruning; as has al- 

 ready been adverted to under the article Nurse* 

 ry for the prefent month. A forefl and a grove 

 plantation, as has already been obferved, are very 

 nearly allied to one another; confequently, the 

 fame fyflem of pruning recommended for the one, 

 will apply, or very nearly apply, to the other. 

 Indeed, the right pruning of a tree, to the pro- 

 curing of good, clean timber, muft, in every fitu- 

 ation, confift in a timeous and effe&uai removal 

 of all competing or fuperfluous branches. The 

 difficulty of arriving at the propofed end, muft 

 increafe or diminifh, according as the trees are 

 flickered or expofed ; indeed, the labour and at- 

 tention neceflary to procure clean timber, from a 

 tree planted fingle, and expofed, will be found 

 (if at all poflible) exceedingly greater than in the 

 cafe of trees fituated in a thick plantation. Hence 

 the propriety of making large maffes of planting, 



where 



