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PRUNING FOREST TREES. 
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In page 190, we find that in 1672 there were also three rows of 
spruce firs planted, “ being set circular and triangular” round the 
bowling-green, and it is probable from the context of the book, that 
much (if not all) of the ornamental planting at Cashioberry was 
done at this time. He recommends the sycamore as a plant which 
deer will not soou harm, but he says the hornbeam is the best of all 
trees for that purpose, for a deer will starve before he will so much 
as taste the bark of the hornbeam. Deer do not much love the very 
small tops.— p. 101. 
Many more curious passages (shewing that there is little or no¬ 
thing new in the most approved modern practices) might he quoted, 
in respect to pruning, laying, and transplanting large trees, &c. &c. 
and if you approve of these already extracted, I may send you more 
at another opportunity. 
Thomas Dee. 
ARTICLE X. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF ANNUALLY PRUNING FOREST TREES. 
BY MR. J. HUGHES. 
To illustrate the advantages of early and annual pruning, I have 
transmitted for your Register an account of the trees planted in the 
parish of Llanarmon, in the winter of 1804 and 1805, and measured 
November, 1832, one foot from the ground. 
Height of the 
Trees ivhen 
planted h 
? 1805. 
Feet. In. 
Oak. 
. 2 11 
Sycamore. 
. 3 8 
Beech. 
3 9 
Elm. 
. 3 10 
Ash. 
. 3 11 
Italian Poplar. 
. 4 2 
Larch. 
. 4 8 
Circumference of the same Trees 
in 1832, that is, the average 
girth from one Foot high to 
15 Feet ...Oak. 21 Inches 
18 do. ...Ash. 26 do. 
10 do. ...Beech. 27 do. 
15 do. ...Sycamore. . 30 do. 
12 do. ...Elm. 32 do. 
20 do. ...Larch. 39 do. 
14 do. ...Scotch Fir. 44 do. 
20 do. ...Italian Pop. 44 do. 
J. Hughes. 
