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a. The trunk, or stool. b, A branch so cut in as to produce an acute knee at its extremity. 



c, A branch with the natural curve. 



d. The upright posts to which the branches were, with nails and shreds, pinned down to the form. 



This experiment, owing to my having to take my departure 

 to a distant part of the country, was left entirely to nature, 

 so that I am unprepared to say what the result may be. 

 This, however, I consider of but little consequence, as the 

 practical result is as certain as the celebrated method of 

 making an egg stand upon the small end. Had these 

 trees continued under my care, it was my intention to train 

 the shoots to the extent of ten or twelve feet out from the 

 trunk, when I would have given a natural or an acute curve 

 as fancy might direct. Upon a tree trained upon this prin- 

 ciple six to eight knees could be grown ; and, what is of no 

 small importance, they can be put into the form required 

 with very little trouble or expense. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c, 



James Munro. 

 Brechin Nursery^ August 5. 1833. 



Art. XI. A Notice of the Species of Pines added to the Pinetum 

 at Dropmore, and of some shoiuy Species of Jtovoering Plants 

 •which decorate the Garden there. By Mr. Philip Frost, Head 

 Gardener at Dropmore. 



Sir, 

 I SEND you, according to the wish expressed by you 

 when here, a list of the new species of pines which have been 

 added to our pinetum subsequently to the publication of an 

 account of it in your Vol. III. p. 263. to 268. : — 



