435 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATION. \3ukf* 



the plants be removed with as large balls of earth 

 as poffible. If drought fuddenly follow after the 

 removal of Evergreens, they muft be watered a- 

 round their roots ; and the water fhould not be 

 fupplied in a fparing manner, but fuch a quantity 

 fhould be given as will fmk down to their uncler- 

 moft roots. 



PR. UN ING. 



By the end of this month may be commenced 

 the lummer pruning of ornamental plantations 

 and trees. We have often recommended cautious 

 pruning. This is efpecially neceiTary on the ex- 

 terior parts of plantations. Here, variety and e- 

 legance muft, as much as poffible, be preferved ; 

 while the interior of ornamental plantations may 

 be managed like ordinary foreft plantation. In 

 pruning larches or firs at this feafon, or, indeed, 

 at any feafon, great care muft be taken not to re- 

 move too many branches at once. A fingle tier, 

 or at moft two tiers in a feafon, are as much as 

 mould be taken away at once. In all cafes, larch 

 and fir branches fhould be cut in to the quick. In- 

 deed, unleis in the cafe of fingle ornamental trees, 

 or fuch as have been neglected to be pruned in 

 due time, cutting by the bole is efiential, both to 

 the health of the plant, and to the future procur- 

 ing of good found timber. When a large branch, 



which 



