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little proportion of 
fenton, sar consequently more liable to 
which gm, 
of slender stem, and 
entirely a ruin long before the trees 
zs ed that 10 aati which the soil waa situation | 
jd warrant us to expect. 
- ete at sina: planted, it must be for shelter 
If rightly managed, to attain these two 
impossi i ean v 
trees, by severe or sudden ameme? to the storm ; this 
would render them unhealthy an 
mere bushes. If it be a mixture “of hardwood and Firs, 
and it is designed to keep = as the permanent crop, 
ea hi mongst the Firs than the 
ood dimen: 
Silver; it is evergreen, attains ions, and, 
where it i is allowed (gpd of space, retains its branches 
from the base, and the thinning should be so arranged 
as to encourage i 
As to mixed plantations, those composed of hardwood 
and Firs, or those f a mixture of the Firs only, 
top, are more delicate | 
the wind play amongst | a 
time, the 
ith 
irs are way they 
mselves. And even ‘although they | pe 
d be as stem as to support some yrs 
with vo sistance of a little pruning which suc 
to balance their tops, still ‘ays will 
n 
. | necessary in expo 
e | tat 20 y old in the ex d 15 years 
sheltered situations, the. nurses ough to be ae reuoved 
ood a is | 0 
are not so easily ndings as when eac is gro 
E in masses. Larch, Spruce, and Silver Fir, all 
: pe same habit x pne can be ee inter- | 
1 thinning cerned, | |w 
in their artist stages Lol | 
Properly Gas the Scots 
becomes a difficult matter to thin properly, ie ‘sui it the | 
oe, and that of the others in the | 
S Silve ill | 
Srna and 
| rae be so thinned a t to all etie iiber 
ourths 
i branches on three- 
bra eserved | 
vigour and to | 
roporton fo for one-half of s 
I don n to assert te 
proportions of top can be ite exactly pre- | 
served ; but the ater they can be a 
better, » ol do n not: 
wed under: a a Some writers give 
a of feet apart at which trees ought to stand | 
i and the number 
This I og a rule which will 
not i found applicable i in all case 
to thin a eason whi 
planted six years only. is ‘composed 
mixture of hardwood, sat “Larch, Spruce, 
Sega The Larches are 
meant in diameter at oo 
ipi -the wot 
The soil is 
e 
yapak f 
or soil resti 
e last named, there 
Besi 
rag Fir, which I pe it n to thi 
eae 
thinni nurses o t will be necessary, us 
re plantation g0 carefully over the Whole extent of 
Mihm and shorten any branches of the 
of ben 
t attended to, i 
tilly 
fra to o this plan seekers was Sth 2 feet eo ere tr 
yards a he 
ia plantata. 
ing, 
i | not so Aa ding to: Joy roo 
e plants 
cut away, to preserve shelter to t 
yhere ‘the situation is 
he permanent crop; but w 
be ay they will req 
sooner cut Bh 
n is 
ee 
here a mixed plantation of hardw 
wanted eai Silver Fir, =a ae eeri to whe kept; 
as, where hardwood will ordin: mensions, 
these trees will be found to arise best, —the tara 
the dampest parts, Larch where the soil is damp bu 
wet, and the Silver Fir on the driest parts of the coil 
ots Firs should never be left among hardwood as 
rmanent crop, unless ee the soil is of a very 
eae pi nical habit when young |1 
oe ‘hats it pid as much space as 
w rough and 
FE 
TR 
wood. requir very apt to gro 
branchy, and nay yo a of little la e is it so 
well adapted to phy Biss shelter as the others men- 
tioned, which keep their branches alive on a larger pro- 
portion of their height, sad are still v eee as timber. | 
But in thinning a plantation o rees, those | ® 
| whieh a appear to thrive best on the oil ca ought in all cases 
to fun — and left as t 
. 
3 
p man 
in m while | the top falis, as as Amy swing given to 
b 
ry M 
for | him 
ot be 
beneficial, as such refuse of hardwood proves a puro I 
e 
to be burnt on the am prepared to asse 
a health of the plantation will repa 
th 
If the trees be — 
me 
possible, for, Citir looks bat ge 
stools, and indeed this ought to be attended to in all 
P as sen are not only unsightly, butt Sina 
a great annoyance in carting or taking out the thinnings 
at ee 
s forester, or a responsible person for 
t 
e there of , all will n 
found to theives alike, and on no account should they nid? 
thinn Pe EE ON ned the same year; such a 
exposes them too much at paee y and peen! rip care- 
pey PE mage against at all t u 
= 
than 
strong, which robs the main 
es coarse timber, 
k 
bog ne branches to grow 
its due nou rt tole = oduc 
ep 
or mer Sie additional wo. ork to t 
to gro 
out, if possible, in the course of thinning ; for 
o doubt the smaller the branches the whe the 
ill be. 
and careful mann by the 
ducted i 4 as profit le and econor 
Where e young, and z 
a ? inches di disineter at the rei, 
with t 
sho ald b 
hem down the ax l the orkman 
made to sie them over y re tl level pi 
the surface as possible ; if Hea’ 
ron them, it a be e pus nshed, down with tai hoad ot 
axe, i to get them cu ees a 
6 inches s vee "te cut with the saw, H ey are suitable 
for sa the isan is cut, a tan out 
aers than 6 or 
ean cheay 
to 
different sizes all put in separa’ 
wi d Fir be put in the same lot, but, if possible, 
keep each kin separate. 
g 
All trees should 7 Parca out of the 
e, if A 92 
yurpose a which 
rps ape and ar 
E ia can 
thing looks more trashy t 
mae, about in the wood, and such rubbish en 
di injurious to the growing 
tation, the decay of refuse 
Vv 
at will only induce | an} 
is in, 
hinning ao must be performed in a neat | Wit 
workman, mmi the work con- 
noki way ible, | not far 
the| Large Oaks.— 
England in which there is so 
them | 
sh they may fey ma be ma wanted | N 
fF | I 
trees. The| v 
eee See meee 
they 
cheaply for themselves, and many of 
may be ruined by their coakatinats 
often done to the growing trees b 
m plantations, by knoc 
t | wood fro: 
forester or person superinten mgt ould ste wel se 
pe 
this, and check it, as i piece of bark re 
lemish in the idee sad 
the time ought to 
h those who wish i raise t 
necessary 
the path nay “of their woods as a gift from Nature. 
raryan aT Transactions of te Scottish Arboricul- 
Home Correspondence. 
—Perhaps hee bs meee her park in 
p rie sare of very 
s as there is are supposed to 
be ee sae old, and a y of thom, peat — — 
ficent t o 
large old Oak 
ugh none o 
. | that bins been noticed in wi Pape il the following 
„show 
them are noble 
ence, at 
7 inches. No. 2. 
t tree, ree ly so 
Am 
at the 
