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commenced. This was owing to the check by the 

 late clipping, throwing the period of growth into 

 wann moist July ; what was earlier clipped perform- 

 ed its growth in dry June, and was considerably in- 

 jured by the manna blight which the latter escaped ^. 

 The same cause operates to induce late sown grain 

 and wheat, which has been throTO late by much 

 injury of spring frost, to acquire a larger, more luxu- 

 riant bulk, than that of earlier growth. 



It would appear to us that Mr Billington, from ig- 

 norance of the value of larch, and of the soil proper for 

 maturing it, has done more injmy to the parts of 

 the royal forests where a growth of timber was ob- 

 tained, by cutting out the thri\ing larch, than will 

 be compensated by his pruning and training of the 

 sickly stunted oak which remained, as described by 

 him, scarcely visible, when the larches were of size 

 for country use ; but we forget ; no blame can attach 

 to him — his orders were, that every thing should 

 give place to oak. 



* The inferior growth of the part of a hedge which was pruned 

 before the vegetation had begun, may be ascribed to the vital ac- 

 tion having been checked at the commencement by the destiiic- 

 tion of the buds necessary to stimulate this action ; and being de- 

 prived of this first strong impulse, life had remained languid 

 throughout the season, the roots never recovering their proper 

 suction or foraging power ; — when the pruning was later, a suffi- 

 cient stimulus had already been given. 



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