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them, in such a shocking and shameful manner, that 

 such a display of careless ignorance never did before 

 come under my inspection in all the course of my 

 profession. In taking a back look ol' the part of this 

 glen we have just now left, we may say that the fo- 

 rester, like the insatiable tyrant death, has surely 

 begun at the wrong end of his work, by passing 

 over decrepid and worn out trees, already falling 

 down with old age, and nipping infancy in its bud, 

 and youth in all its blooming and vigorous beauty. 

 Here are to be seen trees stripped naked of all their 

 branches on the one side, and that too from the root 

 to the very top — even the principal top shoots, in a 

 great many cases, are not spared, which has so dis- 

 figured a great may fine trees, that they never will be 

 proper ornamental trees. The whole of this planta- 

 tion should be immediately gone over, and carefully 

 thinned out to the distance of about ten feet, tree from 

 tree, or as near as can be. In the thinning, the great- 

 est skill and caution is necessary, being particularly 

 careful to spare the oak, Scotch elm, Spanish chesnut, 

 plane, and spruce firs, so as to rear as many of them al- 

 ternately at the distance as can be saved. In six or eight 

 years after, this whole bank should be again gone over, 

 and thinned out to about twenty feet, or as near as 

 can be, at which distance they may be then reared 

 up to maturity, as a standing bank of ornamental 

 timber trees. Taking care, as aforesaid, to spare 

 always the healthiest and most likely to be the long- 

 est lived and most ornamental trees. The whole 

 ground should be kept close covered with under- 

 wood, which can be easily done by dressing up for 

 growth, the stools of the oak, Spanish chesnut, elms, 



planes, and ash to be reared from the stools. Where 



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