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which will endure under the drip and shade of other trees ; but 

 they are of such slow growth at first, and are, besides, dearer, 

 and not so easily procured as the beech and hornbeam. At any 

 rate, the evergreens should be planted at the first making of the 

 plantations, and, as they get up, the beech and hornbeam could 

 be removed, if thought desirable ; but, in each case, attention 

 must be, for several years, regularly paid to divesting them of 

 their aspiring shoots, and occasionally shortening some of the 

 side branches, to prevent too much straggling, and to insure the 

 permanent undergrowth. I will just observe that beech and 

 hornbeam are best adapted, in distant high exposed situations, 

 for permanent undergrowth in narrow belts or clumps ; and 

 evergreens, nearer home, in more sheltered places. 



By following up this plan for a few years, we can insure a 

 permanent close and thick undergrowth of evergreen or de- 

 ciduous trees and shrubs, with the most beautiful, picturesque, 

 and profitable forest trees, instead of those unsightly naked 

 plantations, open at bottom, with nearly valueless timber trees, 

 so frequently to be seen ; and which plantations, with a very 

 little trouble or expense, might be made both profitable and 

 ornamental at the same time. But, alas ! gentlemen do not see 

 this ; or, at least, they will not pursue it, too often, I fear, from 

 the causes I have previously hinted at. 



I could say much more on this subject, and on that of 

 pruning and training hedgerow timber trees, but more par- 

 ticularly single evergreen trees, or masses of evergreen trees 

 in noblemen's or gentlemen's parks, with accompanying under- 

 growth for shelter and protection to the trees. Such parks being 

 generally very deficient in these respects, and having rather a 

 dreary effect in winter, without these accompanying embellish- 

 ments, when there are hundreds of acres ornamented with only 

 deciduous trees. Such is the case at Hawkstone, the seat of Sir 

 Rowland Hill, Bart. ; Powis Castle, the Earl of Powis ; Hard- 

 wick, Sir J. R. Kynaston, Bart. ; Sundorne Castle, A. W. 

 Corbet, Esq. ; Porkington, W. Ormsby Gore, Esq., in this 

 neighbourhood : and no doubt this is generally the case ; at least, 

 it is so in most places that have come under my own observation. 

 But it would be too long to enlarge on this subject in one 

 article, and therefore I shall reserve it for a future time, should 

 you approve of my continuing the subject. [Which we do.] 



Underhill, near Oswestry, Oct. 18. 1 84-1 . 



Art. VI. On growing the Thunbergia. By R. B. Wilson. 



I am induced to lay before your readers my method of growing 

 the Thunbergia, acting under the impression that I have been 



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