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triangular way across the stripe, so that no storm will 

 penetrate or injure them ; and the standing trees will 

 have always plenty of room, and yet the stripe ap- 

 pear always over full. The standel inside trees may 

 be shifted a few inches, either one way or other, to 

 save the private walk in the centre of the stripe. 

 The spruce firs for underwood may be planted at 

 distances of six feet. 



Observe, that whatever of the natural shoots of the 

 limes are to be reared up for trees in the outsides, 

 these are to be taken into account of standing trees ; 

 but wherever there is an unthrifty or unsightly beech, 

 put in the standel plant to supply its place, and when 

 it comes up to have the appearance of a tree, cut 

 away the unthrifty beech or other tree. By a careful 

 attention to this method, and none other, in a very 

 few years these narrow, decrepid, broken down, and 

 disgraceful looking stripes, will beam forth in gor- 

 geous garments, fringed with ermine, summer and 

 winter. 



If allowed to remain much longer in their present 

 state, they will soon be extirpated. 



No. LIV. 



Young Plantation, 



From the light and shallowness of the soil, toge- 

 ther with the exposure of the plantation, I am of 

 opinion it will not rear timber trees to maturity, par- 

 ticularly the larch fir, which will grow pretty well 

 for the first twenty years or thereby, till they arrive 

 at a height of about twenty feet, when the tops will 

 most hkely give way. I am of opinion, that the only 

 trees that will come to maturity here, will be the 



