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ing when redundant in sheltered situation, show the 

 beautiful adaptation of means to end, like warm fur of 

 animals in cold countries : That trees being formed 

 to grow tall in close situation, is a beneficent provi- 

 sion of Providence for accommodating man with 

 straight long clean deal and beams : That trees shoot 

 tall in close situation because they strain hard to 

 reach the light : That trees shoot tall in close situa- 

 tion from warmth : That shelter and exposure is heat 

 and cold : That, " to establish any just analogy be- 

 tween the transplanting of young and of old trees is 

 utterly impossible :" That these conditions of trees 

 being thus explained to mankind, and followed up 

 by judicious execution, the thing is reduced to fixed 

 principles, and raised to the rank of an useful art, 

 and the necessity of defacing, or mutilating, the fine 

 tops of trees, when transplanted, entirely superseded. 



We shall now attempt to weigh some of these 

 assertions and conclusions of Sir Henry, and to 

 pursue these inquiries a little farther. 



It is known to every forester, that trees growing 

 in close order, and drawn up tall, will not continue 

 healthy on being thinned out to very open arrange- 

 ment, but will often fall victims to the change of 

 circumstances, even though they withstand the gale. 

 Who, then, would be guilty of the folly of expecting 



