manner of performing this operation is as 
follows i — one person must hold the thorns 
with the brush end upwards, with both 
hands, at the height required, while another 
person binds them gently with tarry-spun 
yarn, or willow- wands. Another brush 
must be placed immediately below, and 
tied as before, until you come to the grounds 
Two men can secure many trees in a short 
time ; and this may be so neatly performed, 
as not to be any eye-sore, even in pleasure 
grounds. 
Young trees, when planted, should not 
be more than six or eight feet high : atten- 
tion should be paid to the roots ; and the 
stem should be well-grown : those which 
are tall and slender should always be reject- 
ed, as they never make hardy or thriving 
trees. 
TRAINING AND PRUNING. 
In forest trees it is only necessary to ob- 
serve to cut out, while young, all awkward 
shoots, such as grow across, or take an 
upright direction ; and thus robbing the 
principal leader of its due share of nourish- 
ment. All such luxuriant shoots ought to 
be either cut entirely from the tree, or 
