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THE PARK PINETUM. 
[Part V. 
sometimes a broken leg to cattle, and always 
sacrifice of pasture. 
The plants should be kept tied, by three 
strings, to the sheep-fence. When a large pinus 
requires steadying, or has been shaken by the 
wind, it should be made fast to the horse-rail, 
or iron hurdles, by three chains; the angles be¬ 
tween the chains being equal each to each. The 
chains should be fastened with S hooks round 
boughs, with lead between the chains and the 
boughs, in order to keep the stem intact. They 
should run up as high as convenient, like the 
rigging of a mast. This for two reasons : first, 
the higher the ties, the greater the mechanical 
advantage in holding against a strong wind; 
secondly, if the part which you attempt to fix 
has any motion, it will be felt at the root in¬ 
versely as the distance of the ties from the root. 
Cords get tight in wet, and loose in drought. 
An insignis raised in this way, planted in 
the autumn of 1837, is now (1853) above thirty- 
seven feet high. This is not much more than 
two feet each year ; but the three last shoots mea¬ 
sure together nine feet eight inches, and had the 
plant not been blown over when young, and its 
leader browsed by cattle, and afterwards broken 
by wind, I think its growth in height would 
