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from former experience) of saving all or any part 

 of their young plantations, I will feel myself most 

 amply rewarded : — 



Oaks, &c. — Where the plants of oak, Spanish 

 chesnut, elm, (Scotch or English,) ash, plane, 

 sycamore, horse chesnut, birch, and alder, (and 

 in some parts of England and in the most of Ire- 

 land, the beech) have failed in the top, and are by 

 no means likely to recover ; cut them over close 

 by the ground, trampling and firming the roots well 

 in the earth before cutting off the top, and be sure 

 to cut the plant close to the surface of the ground 

 when trampled down ; let this be done in all plan- 

 tations where there is no risk of the young shoots 

 (numbers of which will yet come away during 

 autumn) being destroyed by game, such as deer, 

 hares, rabbits, &c. in this month, and particularly 

 before the end of September ; where there is a risk 

 of the young growths being destroyed during the 

 winter by game, let all such be cut over in the 

 months of December and January ; thus by having 

 their roots firmed in the earth, the roots will be 

 growing every day of vegetative weather during 

 winter, and will, in the spring, send out most vigor- 

 ous growths ; there being no risk of the roots los- 

 ing the growth by the top of the plant shaking 

 with the winter winds. The same method should 

 be attended to with all plants, even two, three, or 

 five years planted, if dead in the top ; and not to 

 depend on their side shoots, although fresh, as they 

 never make a proper tree. — Vide my Forester's 

 Guide, 1824. 



Firs. — From the strong gales of wind we have 



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