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opportunity be aiForded, another shall be offered to your notice at a 
period not veiy remote. 
I shall conclude now, by laying it down as a position founded on 
facts, that although it is admitted that prunings may, and do, mould 
trees to a form and size adapted to man’s convenience, they are, to 
all intents and purposes, operations of debility, and not tending to 
produce strength or full growth; that by effecting premature deve- 
lopements they shorten life, and eventually lead to the destruction of 
the tree. Let any close observer, who has opportunities of viewing 
park and woodland scenery under various modes of treatment, com¬ 
pare the spindle, may-pole-like trunks of trees subjected to the saw 
and hand-bill, with the beautiful masses of luxuriant branches and 
foliage, proceeding from the enormous healthy trunks of trees, that— 
having, in the first instance, been carefully planted in soil duly prepa¬ 
red by deep tillage,—are subsequently left to Nature’s maturing hand. 
Let any one, who may have seen the spot, retrace the magnificent 
growth of the trees,—of the Lime in particular,—at Lord Bathurst’s 
Estate, near Cirencester; their noble branches suspended like cande¬ 
labra, with masses of luxuriant foliage feathering to the ground!— 
let him, I entreat, compare these glorious objects with the wretched 
\’ictims of mutilation, by the hand of art; and after that, let him re¬ 
main an advocate for pruning if he can. 
With great respect, and sincere good wishes, 
I subscribe myself. Gentlemen, 
Your obliged Friend, 
December 17, 1831. G. I. T. 
Article III .—On Fm'cing the Strawberry, By Mr. G. 
Harrison, Under-Gardener at the Earl of Egremont’s, 
Petworth-House, Sussex. 
Gent LEM EX, 
At this place we annually force from two to three thousand 
pots of the Strawberry, and I venture to state, that we have not a 
single pot but what is very productive; such being the fact, I here 
send you the method we practice in the cultivation of the fruit under 
consideration, and if you judge it worthy of a place in your Register, 
it is at your ser\dce. 
Tn June, small pots (three inches wide, and tliree deep,) are filled 
with strong rich loamy soil, they are then taken to the strau'berry 
