ing natural shoots into standing timber trees, see 

 Forester's Guide, second edition. 



The whole of these stripes should be immediately 

 planted full of trees, but in a manner perfectly differ- 

 ent from that which has been going on of late ; that 

 is, by filling up the ground in these stripes promis- 

 ■cuously with all kinds of trees, without any re- 

 gard to putting in a proper tree to fill up the 

 blanks, w^here it is most necessary and requisite 

 that a proper long lived ornamental tree, to be 

 reared up to perpetuity, should stand to fill up the 

 blank ; without a due regard to this, the stripes wdll 

 be continually filling up and never full. It is a mat- 

 ter of no importance whatever, how the spruce firs, 

 &;c. are put in for underwood, of which these stripes 

 should always be full ; but it is of the greatest ima- 

 ginable importance, and the very life, prosperity, re- 

 covery, and salvation of these neglected and lost 

 sight of stripes, to the putting in a proper selection 

 of standel trees, that will be the most ornamental and 

 long lived trees, to fill up the blanks, and renew the 

 decayed appearance of these stripes. To effect this 

 purpose, plant in all the blanks in the outside rows, 

 plane, lime, and Scotch firs alternately ; let these 

 (together with such of the beech as is already on the 

 ground worth the leaving as a standel tree,) be put 

 in at distances of 12 feet tree from tree (including 

 the beech,) lengthways, and in the interior of these 

 stripes, a standel tree of oak, Spanish chesnut, Scotch 

 and spruce firs alternately in the gap in the centre of 

 the 12 feet outside trees, at 8 or 10 feet, if it can be 

 obtained, in the wideness of the stripes from the out- 

 side trees, or measured from the inside of the fence, 

 supposing the outside trees close on the fence. In 

 this case, the standel trees will always stand in a 



