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must be done gradually, from the trees having been 

 six feet high. 



No. XXIV. 



Grove, 



In this grove there is a number of fine trees, which 

 have arrived at a considerable degree of perfection, 

 notwithstanding their having been altogether neglect- 

 ed in the rearing. Let it be carefully observed and 

 always kept in view, that all plantations, whether in 

 large or small clusters, should be regularly and gra- 

 dually thinned out. Here the soil is very rich, but 

 the situation much exposed, so that it is altoge- 

 ther impossible to thin a single tree out of it with 

 safety. In all places of this kind, when trees are taken 

 out, they should be grubbed out by the roots. No- 

 thing can be more disgusting to strangers, or to the 

 proprietor himself, when walking through his fine 

 lawn, to see the old roots of trees cut so high above 

 the surface, strangers would be ready to draw a hasty 

 conclusion, and say, surely these trees, particularly 

 where a blank is perceivable, have been cut out to 

 make a little money, or for some such necessitous 

 purpose ; it would add much to bettering the look 

 of this and some other places in a similar state, were 

 these old roots taken out. The blemishes in the 

 healthy trees should be carefully dressed up as for- 

 merly recommended, and the whole allowed to stand 

 without any cutting, unless where a tree becomes 

 perfectly dead, which should always be taken out 



