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the crooks and contents of its branches, it is the 

 bufinefs of planteis to train them up tall and 

 ftraight, to keep their fhafts clean, and not to fuf- 

 fer them to branch till within a few feet of the top, 



j^hly. The prefent me:hod of lopping, though 

 conducive to the lengthening of the (haft, fills it full 

 of rough protuberances, which, by admitting wa- 

 ter, arc very prejudicial to the timber, and occafion 

 the defedls fo generally complained of. 



Stbly, The fhaft of the elm advances inch by 

 inch through its whole contents, that is, every inch 

 lengthens yearly ; by this means it advances more 

 or lefs in proportion to its length, befides the ad- 

 dition of new wood at the top j fo that a branch 

 now thirty feet from the ground, will (in a grow- 

 ing ftick) five years hence be removed higher by a 

 foot, confequently the timber is increaling in length 

 beneath that branch, as well as above ic. 



Laftly, The growth of elm is to that of oak, in 

 a hazely loam like mine, as three to two, and the 

 value of the timber, if long and ftraight, as two to 

 ^ree. The profits of the planter, therefore, bod^ 

 in oak and elm, will be nearly on an equality, 



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