PRUNING FOSEST TREES. 
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from every class of proprietors, whether the philosophical economist, 
who looks with anxiety for the mode of occupying and supporting an 
excess of population, or the juvenile sportsman who seeks the mode 
of multiplying his game, and increasing the number of his garde de 
chasse ; the woods he plants will serve the first purpose, and kindly 
treated, his hand of foresters will assist in protecting them. Improve¬ 
ment by plantation is at once the cheapest, and the least precarious 
mode of increasing the immediate value, as well as the future income 
of estates; and for that reason it is we exhort jmoprietors to take to 
heart the exhortation of the dying Scotch laird to his son, “ be aye 
sticking in a tree Jock, it will be growing whilst you sleep.’ 
A Mountaineer. 
ARTICLE XI. 
ON THE PRUNING OF FOREST TREES. 
(Supplementary Paper.) 
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOMESTIC GARDENER’S MANUAL, C. M. II. S. 
I did not imagine that I should have occasion to offer any remarks 
on this subject in addition to those contained in the three papers com¬ 
mencing vol. 1, pages 241, 389, and 595 of the Horticultural Re¬ 
gister ; but after attentive perusal of the various articles that have 
appeared in the work, and which probably have been deemed by 
their writers to be conclusive arguments against the hypothesis that 
I advanced; I have endeavoured to forward this supplementary com¬ 
munication, in order to remove any doubts on so important a subject, 
that may perplex those who are interested in the enquiry. 
There is a remark in a recent article by “An Arborist,” which 
claims particular attension because of its jdausibility, and tendency 
to mislead the judgment, unless it be correctly applied: it is this, 
“ Trees do not,”he observes “like aminals, wear out their organs, for 
they are provided with new ones every year; no necessory cause of 
death, therefore, is inherent in their nature. The vessels and fibres 
forming the external layer, which add every year to the circumfer¬ 
ence of the stem, where the life of the plant principally resides are 
wholly new, and so unconnected with the layers of preceeding years, 
that the latter may be removed by hollowing out, without killing the 
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