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ye long made the ground their resting-places, rising again and spreading in the 
gour of then* growth, and rendering more strong what appears the basement of so 
and a superstructure. 
This last description brings us nearer home, brings us to look upon one of the 
me natural family, the Cedar of Lebanon, in all its grandeur ; and those only who 
,ve seen a member of this noble genus aged, large, and completely perfect as a 
ecimen, can appreciate its magnificence. Here we stop to remark, that no tree is 
)re profited by pruning, the effects of which are brought out by accompanying and 
iicious training; and none earlier, in a small state, or more lastingly exhibit the 
od effects of what we refer to. Neither do any require an earlier or continued 
plication of the practice than the Cedar of Lebanon ; for it is a simple truth that 
lere one large, really well-proportioned, handsome specimen is met with, twenty 
at are ungainly, if not deformed, are found, — and yet such are objects of admiration 
nost universally, though not on account of their beauty. 
The conclusion of the foregoing paragraph having brought us to the ample lawn 
extensive pleasure-ground, to which the Cedar of Lebanon is too frequently 
□fined, we will examine these in the case of the stately Beech or fragrant Lime, 
r favourite Thorn, and ancient Portugal Laurel ; the flowering Acacia, the modest 
>w, a graceful red or white Cedar, or even the lowly Savine, and scores of others, — 
t whether pruning and training in their case would have been beneficial, for we 
11 imagine them as perfect as need be : but whether half-a-dozen, a score, or an 
limited number of equally beautiful objects occupying the sites of those that do 
t come up to our standard, would not, we say, at least be as acceptable as the 
litary one or two which exist, or those we would replace. To show that what we 
ve in view is universal in its application, we need only remark that the garden 
lose extent could only accommodate half-a-dozen or a pair of shrubs or trees, as 
ejects of ornament, as well as that of the cottage which possesses the solitary Holly 
[ Box, and the orchard of half-a-dozen fruit-trees, might as well have them 
iformly handsome, and their beauty as well as utility developed, as in the case of 
3 latter possessing straggling wretched objects, and the preceding cut into conical 
Joours, or tiers of balls, and trained bows and crosses, which are much more 
ficult to produce. 
Having seen the extent to which subjects exist, which pruning and training, as 
• erations to create ornamental effect, can be practised upon, and described specimens 
it were by accident examples of what “ pruning and training ” would with certainty 
1 ect, we glance at the proper manner of carrying it out. 
Now, no one will deny that every tree of whatsoever kind possesses, in different 
grees, according to its nature, the inherent capability of growing to a very orna- 
■ mtal object. In other words, no trees or shrubs from choice, so to speak, grow in 
1 ugly form ; it is not its own fault that it does so, but the fault of circumstances ; 
1 that the actual work of “ pruning and training ” is the proper direction of a power 
' )able of being developed in a gratifying manner, and inherently disposed to do so, 
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