PRUNING FOREST TREES. 
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lliein, they therefore do not require a very airy situation; their 
roots are strong, but not so strong as some of those of the last divi¬ 
sion, and therefore seem to require rather a lighter soil; they 
must be supported or nailed against a wall. 
The fifth division consists of Rosa semperfiorens and indica. The 
sudden and rapid way in which these roses send forth their shoots 
immmediately on a change from cold to heat, points them out as 
growing in their wild state on mountains covered with snow a part 
of the year, and like other tiatives of such places, with rapidity, 
taking advantage of an interval of warmth to grow bloom and ripen 
their seed. 
I shall be highly gratified if any of the foregoing observations 
should tend to make any of your readers better acquainted with the 
nature of some of the species of this genus of plants, which certainly 
consists of the most beautiful, elegant, and lovely flowers in existence, 
and which in every country, where they will grow, are universally 
esteemed* 
J. T. 
ARBORICULTURE. 
Article xl—on pruning forest TREE.Sj 
COMMUNICATED BY MR, WITHERS. 
As SO great a difference of opinion exists on the pruning and thinning 
of Forest Trees, I think I cannot render a more acceptable service 
to your readers than to communicate the opinions of my venerable 
friend, Mr. Sandy, on this important subject. * This gentleman 
superintended the planting of upwards of one thousand acres of land 
for Mr. Coke, and had the sole care of the trees for a period of more 
than thirty years. Under his judicious management these planta¬ 
tions attained a growth, and are now yearly producing a profit scarcely 
equalled, perhaps, taking all circumstances into consideration^ by any 
plantation of the same age in the kingdom. Mr. Sandy’s opinions 
are, therefore, the result of long and successful experiencei and as 
such are deserving the serious attention of all planters* 
W. Withers. 
Holt, March 7th, 1832. 
* This letter of Mr. Sandy’s Landscape Gardens, Wellsj Norfolk, is inserted in 
the Arboricidtural Transactions of Ireland. 
