PT. V. 



THE PARK PIJ^-ETUM. 



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cheapest outside fence, an hexagonal single post and 

 rail, two feet nine inches from the ground. 



The best but dearest mode of fencing the pot pinus 

 is by a circular sheep-fence of strong iron netting, three 

 feet high round the pit. This fence may be lifted, and 

 the interior ground kept hoed. The hoeings should be 

 left on the surface, as future pabulum for the plant. 

 There can be no better manure for plants than the re- 

 mains of plants. If the hoeings are taken away, the 

 soil is denuded at each hoeing. The best outside 

 cattle-fence is eight iron hurdles, consisting only of an 

 upper bar, two feet nine inches high, and an under bar 

 close to the ground. Between these bars the sheep 

 will pass to graze, so that no pasture is wasted, and no 

 mowing necessary. When the plant is large enough, 

 the inner fence may be taken away. The number of 

 hurdles may be increased as the side-boughs increase ; 

 and these side-boughs may for ever be let down to the 

 sheep-browsing line, instead of being kept up to the 

 horse-browsing line. More than this in the way of 

 side-boughs one must not attempt, or pretend to, in the 

 park or pasture. As for boughs down to the ground, 

 the very fence which protects them hides them, and is 

 a still greater dis-sight than the absence of the boughs. 

 The trees are planted as trees, and must not be looked 

 at as shrubs. But they will be looked at as shrubs ; 

 and after having been at great pains and expense 

 merely for the preservation of side-boughs, and when 

 you can show larger and lower side-boughs than can be 



