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triangular form ; when the trees get from twenty to 

 twenty-four feet high, it should get its second thin- 

 ning, say, to about sixteen feet, lengthways, always 

 spare the most healthy, best, and long lived trees to 

 be reared up, and keep the ground full of underwood. 

 Larch fir is by no means a proper tree to be reared 

 either for shelter or ornament in a narrow strip or on 

 a very exposed situation. 



No. LIX. 



Home Plantations near the Mansion, 



The trees here are in a most healthy and thriving 

 state, and from the situation they occupy, both as to 

 ornament, screen, and shelter, deserve particular at- 

 tention, in rearing proper long lived trees. To effect 

 this most desirable of all objects, I would advise 

 making a selection of the oak, Spanish chesnut, plane, 

 beech, elm, ash, Scotch spruce, and silver firs, if it 

 was possible to divide them, (although I am aware 

 from the state of the plantation, it is not,) to equal 

 numbers on the ground, which would have a very fine 

 effect on its look, both in summer and winter. Trees 

 to be reared for this purpose should be most skilfully 

 selected, say marked out, and all others that in the 

 least interfere with them taken away, to give them 

 room to branch out on all sides ; this should be care- 

 fully attended to, year after year, as their branches 

 spread out, and if possible, not to bare them more on 

 one side than on the other, also to have their branches 

 equally spread out on all sides here, and on both 

 sides approac^iing round the house, all which should 



