4/2 ORNAMENTAL, PLANTATIONS. [Sept. 



prefs their gratitude for the flicker afforded from 

 the fummer fun. 



The Larch and the Silver Fir mould each be 

 clothed with laterals from top to bottom. Not one 

 of thefe mould ever feel the knife. 



RECLAIMING NEGLECTED HEDGE-ROW TREES. 



Hedge-row trees which have been neglected 

 or ill treated, may be reclaimed in a great mea- 

 fure after a few years neceflary attention to re- 

 duce the plants into form by degrees. Trees, 

 however, of this defcription are often found fo 

 bent, fquab, and bufhy, if much expofed, that 

 it would be next to impoilible to fhape them for 

 tall timber. As to thefe, if, in kind, they come 

 under the defcription of SHIP TIMBER, it is 

 obvious what courfe to take in order to turn 

 them to profit ; they ought immediately to be cut 

 down. Others, which are found inclining up- 

 wards, although in diforder in refpeft of pruning, 

 m time may be induced to moot tall and flraight. 

 It has been obferved, that Hedge-row trees 

 fhould be of fome confiderable length of (lem. 

 This object, however* can only be attained with 

 certainty by good management, from youth up- 

 wards. For it would be highly imprudent to at- 

 tempt to produce a long ftem on many grown 

 trees : thefe often have a great number of very 

 large fide branches. 



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