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Langhangles, and the young trees of the same species at South- 

 wick and Blair Drummond, will fully agree with these remarks. 

 The truth is, that the objections made to it have not arisen 

 from the tree itself, but from improper management, and chiefly 

 from the neglect of thinning. In these circumstances, it " in 

 murky file rears" an " inglorious head, and blots the fair hori- 

 zon." Where ornament is an object, the operation of thinning 

 ought to commence when they are very young, and be carried 

 on freely until they are twenty or thirty years old. The farther 

 apart these trees are removed from each other, so much more 

 picturesque will be the forms which they will assume. It is an 

 admirable tree for planting near ruins, castles, and all gothic 

 and irregular buildings; as may be seen at Warwick Castle; 

 where, as also at Clermont and Corby Castles, it mixes beauti- 

 fully with exotic evergreens, as laurel, box, privet, holly, and 

 arbutus, which, when the trees are sufficiently thin, grow freely 

 under their shade. 



12. The cedar of Lee anus. — In England this tree ought 

 to be planted as universally as possible, and particularly near 

 Grecian buildings, with which it accords better than almost 

 any other evergreen : for the stone and cluster pine do not in 

 general live long in this country, as may be seen at Wei beck 

 and, several other places. It delights in a moist soil. — See 

 Pallas' Travels in Siberia. 



