STEUART'S planter's GUIDE. 295 



We shall finish our remarks on Sir Henry's work, 

 by making some observations upon a quotation made 

 by Sir Henry Steuart, from " A Treatise on the 

 Forming and Improving of Country Residences," 

 by the Author of the Encyclopgedia of Gardening, 

 kc. — an author, who combines talent, successful in- 

 dustry, and enlightened benevolence, in no common 

 degree. We are sorry to appear before this author, 

 whom we have long esteemed, in opposition ; yet we 

 regret the less, as we consider him one of the few 

 who prefer accm-acy and truth to an old opinion, and 

 whose name stands too high to be aflPected by a 

 casual misconception. 



The general ejffects of pruning," says this au- 

 thor, as quoted by Sir Henry Steuart, " is of a cor- 

 responding nature with culture, that is, to increase 

 the quantity of timber-produce : the particular man- 

 ner in which it does this is by directing the greater 

 part of the sap, which generally spreads itself into 

 side branches, into the principal stem. This must 

 consequently enlarge the stem in a more than ordi- 

 nary degree, by increasing the annual circles of the 

 wood. Now, if the tree be in a worse soil and cli^ 

 mate than those which are natural to it, this will 

 he of some advantage^ as the extra increase of tim- 



