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over for underwood, keeping the selection of trees 

 to be reared to maturity as timber trees at distances 

 of fourteen feet, and in the bottom of the avenue at 

 ten feet on each side, lengthways, but fourteen feet 

 up the bank ; keeping always a tree in the centre, 

 between the two outside ones, in a triangular man- 

 ner ; these trees having two sides to branch out, 

 will rear up closer than in the interior of the planta- 

 tion. In the young clump below the fog house, 

 a few of the best larches may stand as timber trees, 

 as they will come to maturity in this situation ; 

 the whole should be immediately thinned out to dis- 

 tances of eight feet, tree from tree, and in five or 

 six years after, to sixteen feet, tree from tree, mak- 

 ing an equal selection of all the different kinds al- 

 ready on the ground, to give variety to its look. The 

 soil here being a deep loam, will carry any kind of 

 trees. The trees on both sides of the road, up to 

 the gate, are already particularly beautiful. It w^ould 

 even add to the grandeur of this ravine, if the tops 

 of the trees were allowed to fall out and hang over 

 the road, forming a kind of canopy ; this may be 

 so far accomplished by allowing a tree to press the 

 top from the inside, and when plants are to be put 

 in, plant them in a sloping direction ; a prop may be 

 put in the inside to bear on the top of the tree out- 

 wards ; were very tall trees to meet in the tops here, 

 it would be sublimely grand in a sun-shine day, as 

 the passenger walked under them, or in a moon-light 

 evening. 



