"hi arguing thus { do not mean to approve 
of such light pruning*, as only to consist in a 
sidy handling of the tree, while a great deal of 
wood is left behind, which must draw suction, 
which neither adorns the tree, nor is profitable, 
to man. There must be a medium in ail things 
and that medium is peculiarly required to be 
observed in pruning. Wood, when once it be¬ 
gins to assume a yellow tinge, gives evideu, 
proof of ill-health—it should therefore be taken 
out, together with all long branches, with », 
couple of leaves at their ends. It is unnecessary 
ip an essav of this nature to enter too much into 
*/ 
•minutiae and enumerate the several appear¬ 
ances of the branches, which it is necessary to 
cut out, or of the wood, which the primer is 
called upon to victimize when lie meets with 
an exuberant tree- -but the immutable rule to be 
observed is to cut out all that experience proves 
to be useless and improvable—taking care at all 
times to preserve the primary branches, how¬ 
ever dejected they may appear, unless they be 
totally dead and dry. 
When age begins to wear upon long establish¬ 
ed fields, there is a peculiar branch to which 
they become subject, and that is what is termed 
the “ gonnandiser ’ not a bad cognomen certain¬ 
ly. fos it sucks voraciously all aliment from tbr 
tree. It is of the same species as suckers, with 
this difference, that the sucker springs in an 
upright direction from the joints of the tree, 
whilst the gormandizer shoots out horizontally. 
Trees suffer much, and soon waste away, when 
they become addicted to this branch—which 
arises frequently from ct and .' 
pruning b' cutting away primaries- *ur in 
