Part V.] 
THE PARK PINETUM. 
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one must not attempt, or pretend to, in the park 
or pasture. As for boughs down to the ground, 
the very fence which protects them hides them, 
and is a still greater dis-sight than the absence 
of the boughs. The trees are planted as trees, 
and must not be looked at as shrubs. But they 
will be looked at as shrubs ; and after having 
been at great pains and expense merely for the 
preservation of side-boughs, and when you can 
show larger and lower side-boughs than can be 
seen in any other pasture, you will catch it from 
the vulgar for the destruction of side-boughs. 
But the vulgar are here as unreasonable as 
usual, and might as well require the park pas¬ 
ture to be laid out in flower-beds, or decked 
with green-house plants. 
On this system the pot pinus may be planted, 
when only an inch or two in height, in places 
exposed to cattle, and may be seen, pruned, cul¬ 
tivated, and petted , from first to last. 
In deer-parks the pot pinus may be protected 
by a wire game-fence and numerous circles of 
slight rails, of which the plant is the common 
centre, about a foot from the ground and from 
one another. These fend off cattle by entan¬ 
gling their legs. The objections to this fence are, 
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