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THE PAEK PINETUM. 



PT. V. 



seen in any other pasture, you will catch it from tlie 

 vulgar for the destruction of side-boughs. But the 

 vulgar are here as unreasonable as usual, and might as 

 well require the park pasture to be laid out in flower- 

 beds, or decked with greenhouse plants. 



On this system the pot pinus may be planted, when 

 only an inch or two in height, in places exposed to 

 cattle, and may be seen, pruned, cultivated, and petted^ 

 from first to last. 



In deer-parks the pot pinus may be protected by a 

 wire game-fence and numerous circles of shglit rails, of 

 which the plant is the common centre, about a foot 

 from the ground and from one another. These fend 

 off cattle by extangling their legs. The objections to 

 this fence are, sometimes a broken leg to cattle, and 

 always sacrifice of pasture. 



The plants should be kept tied, by three strings, to 

 the sheep-fence. When a large pinus requires steady- 

 ing, or has been shaken by the wind, it should be made 

 fast to the horse-rail, or iron hurdles, by three chains ; 

 the angles between the chains being equal each to each. 

 The chains should be fastened with aS hooks round 

 boughs, with lead between the chains and the boughs, 

 in order to keep the stem intact. They should run up 

 as high as convenient, like the rigging of a mast. This 

 for two reasons : first, the higher the ties, the greater 

 the mechanical advantage in holding against a strong 

 wind ; secondly, if the part which you attempt to fix 

 has any motion, it will be felt at the root inversely as 



