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will retain the branches in vigour, sufficiently low 

 for all the purposes of shelter: nothing could be 

 more unseemly than the decapitated trees ; and in a 

 few years most of them would become rotted in the 

 stem, die, and fall down. 



From observing, on the western side of Scotland, 

 thriving plantations exposed to south-west winds 

 and sea-spray, and also to north-east winds and sea- 

 spray, in woods extending along the western side of 

 the salt lochs in Argyllshire, our author predicts, 

 that, imder his panacea of repeated cutting down, 

 trees woidd grow luxuriantly in exposed situations 

 on the north-eastern margin of our island. We do 

 not desire to see Mr Monteath's sanguine hope 

 tm*ned to disappointment, which a trial would cer- 

 tainly effect. There is sometliing peculiarly hard 

 and cutting in our vernal north-eastern breeze fresh 

 from ocean, which withers up the tender spread- 

 ing leaves of every plant raised from the ground, and 

 placed in its immediate draught. This is occasioned 

 as well by a cold moist, as by a cold dry wind, the 

 new vegetable structure in the developing process, 

 when the tissues of tubes and cells are only in the 

 state of pidp, and all the molecular germs floating 

 into figure, under the direction of vital and chemi- 

 cal impulses and attractions, being very susceptible 



