A Practical Treatise on Planting Author:Samuel Hayes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3( cellent for every purpofe to which white or yellow deal is applicable ; and every planter mufl allow, that in whatever foil it agrees with, no tree can produce a fpeedier or more effe... more »ctual melter, whilfl at the fame time by its lively verdure, clofe foliage, and pidurefque difpofition of its weeping branches, (circumftances always to be obferved when the tree is in a perfect thriving ftate) it is peculiarly adapted to feveral purpofes of rural decoration. r -. ."."'.T.'-' , . -V..-';.'""'' '"' ""'.' textit{'':. ../ 'T:.....-'.! -...,J.'.,.. , ON PRUNING, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF O O B S, HAVING now gone through the tafk I originally propofed, of comparing the works of the moft approved Authors on the fubjecT: of planting, with the refult of my own experience, and adapting as much as lay in my power the variety of directions they contain, to the foils and fituations for which they appear to have been refpe and ively intended ; I fhall offer a few obfervations on the management of plantations textit{of fame years flanding, when the care and attention which has been beftowed on them at the time of planting, fhall have produced that textit{luxuriant growth, which, whilft it gratifies the planter's wifhes at the moment, would utterly defeat( 7° ) defeat them in the end, if not Ikilfully directed and kept within proper bounds.—I fhall not however greatly enlarge upon the fubject of textit{pruning, as exclufive of my wifh to give this little treatife the merit of being textit{eoncife at leaft, if it mall lay claim to nothing more, I have not found thofe contradi and ions in Authors with re- fpecl to that branch of the planter's art, which are to be obferved in moft others; it being uni- verfally admitted, that the heavy ufe of the knife or faw on the fide branches, though...« less