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ing. Mr. Loudon observes, in one of the . 
numbers of the Gardener’s Magazine, that the 
quickest way of thickening a plantation in 
this state is, if the trees are deciduous, to cut 
every alternate tree down, in order that the 
stools of the fallen trees may send up young 
shoots; but if any of them have branches 
within six or eight feet of the ground, by 
taking off the tops of the trees, and tying 
down these branches, the plantation may be 
thickened, without cutting any trees down. 
A weeping ash is a very ornamental tree 
on a lawn, but unless it is well trained it 
loses its effect. When trained to a wooden 
frame, the hoops and rods of which it is com¬ 
posed are seldom strong enough to sustain 
the w T eight of snow which falls on the sum¬ 
mit of the tree in severe winters, and if they 
give way in any place, the boughs are fre¬ 
quently broken. In the arboretum which 
Joseph Strutt, Esq,, is now having laid out at 
Derby, and which, when finished, he is most 
liberally about to present to that town as a 
public promenade, there is a very fine weep¬ 
ing ash, for which Mr. Strutt has had an iron 
frame-work made. The iron rods are light 
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