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early growth, they would he curious and useful covers for game." {Gard. 

 Chron., vol. i, p. 534'.) 



Shrubberies. — The prunings and leaves which drop should either be dug in, 

 or left to decay on the surface, and digging emitted, unless the object be to 

 stunt the shrubs. {Ibid., p. 6.) 



Pruning and Lopping. — Close pruning and snag-lopping, leaving small 

 live shoots upon the snag, are recommended by Dr. Lindley {Ibid., p. 113.), 

 and close lopping by Professor Henslow. {Ibid., p. 131.) 



Cedrus Deodara, the Deodar, or Holy Cedar of the Mountains, is a tree 

 as hardy and fast-growing as the larch, more valuable in its timber, and with 

 the evergreen beauty of the cedar of Lebanon. Of all trees of British India 

 this is incomparably the most important to England; it has every good quality, 

 and no bad one. {Ibid.., p. 699.) 



Araucaria imbricdta has been raised at Plymouth, by pricking the seeds into 

 the ground only a third of their length, with the narrow end downwards. 

 {Ibid., p. 293.) It has been raised in large quantities at Liverpool, and various 

 other places, and plants are now offered for sale by the 100, at very low prices. 



Quh'ciis fastigidta and Q. alba grow much better when grafted on the com- 

 mon oak, than when on their own roots. {T. Rivers, in Gard. Chron., vol.i.) 



The Terms Red and White Oak are not applicable to two different species of 

 oak as such, but to two difl^erent states of either of the British species. {Gard. 

 Chron., vol. i. p. 102.) 



The Sweet Bay should never be cut down after it appears to be killed with 

 frost ; for it sometimes happens that its leaves, though hard, brown, dry, and 

 to all appearance dead, have gradually recovered their green colour, and even, 

 in some cases, been completely restored to life. {Ibid., p. 331.) 



The Savine. — ./uniperus iSabina is a splendid lawn plant, when left to take 

 its natural growth in an open space and kindly soil. A plant on my lawn, 

 25 years old, measures 22 yards in circumference. Its branches radiate from 

 a single stem, which is invisible in the centre, feathering all round, without gap 

 or blemish, down to the grass, and rising only about 3 ft. in the middle. 

 It is at all times a pleasing object; but in the spring, when it has put forth its 

 tender shoots, or in the autumn, when bespangled with dew, it is particularly 

 beautiful. {P. P., in Gard. Chron., vol. i. p. 618.) 



^hus Cotinus, the Venetian Sumach, — A plant of this shrub, noticed in the 

 Gardener's Magazine for its beauty twelve years ago, now measures 70 ft. in 

 circumference at the extremities of the branches, and is strikingly handsome, 

 its feathery panicles being so numerous as almost to hide the foliage. These, 

 when they first expand, are of a yellowish green colour ; but by exposure to 

 the sun they acquire a fine deep red tint on their upper sides, which adds 

 greatly to their beauty as they droop in masses, or wave gracefully in the 

 wind. (./. B. Whiting, in Gard. Chron., vol. i. p. 613.) 



Birches, and other coppice woods, are said by Mr. Billington to push the 

 most vigorous shoots when cut in the sap when the bud is swelling. {Id. 

 ibid., p. 365.) The experience of others, as well as theory, would lead to the 

 preference of autumn. 



Tree Guards. — A cheap and expeditious fence for protecting trees in 

 parks against deer, horses, &c., may be made as follows: — Provide some 

 stakes about the thickness of the wrist, 7 ft. in length, and tolerably straight ; 

 chop each a little flat on one side. Then get some iron hooping, a little 

 thicker than coopers are in the habit of using for barrels ; punch holes 

 through it 6 in. apart (with one near each end) ; nail it to the stakes on 

 the chopped side, 1 ft. from the top of them, and I ft. from the bottom ; 

 then raise it and bend it circularly round the tree, observing that the hoops 

 are placed inside nearest the tree ; the holes left at each end of the hoop are 

 then clenched up with a nail, and the guard is complete. {W. Broivn, in Gard. 

 Chron., vol.i. p. 26.) Stout wire is substituted for hoops in some parts of 

 Scotland. — Cond. 



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