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.(as reprefented No. V.) overpower the fapHngs^ 

 bearing them down almoft to the ground for a tioie, 

 and the purpofe being efFe<51:ed, may for relief of 

 the oaks be cut down as oftea as requifite, till, as 

 they gain power, the withies in their turn give way. 

 Plants like thefe, which extradt nutrition of a dif- 

 ferent nature, though they promote a crook, will 

 not ftarve or check the oaks beneath them. 



Trees growing out of a bank frequently take 

 a favourable turn like No. VI. Suqli are accepted 

 by the king's purveyors as compafs pieces, which 

 gain admifTion into the dock-yards, though of lefs 

 dimenfions, and at a higher price than ftraighter 

 timber. It may be proper therefore, in new in- 

 clofures, to throw up the banks high and broad, 

 to plant quickfets on the outer flope, on the top 

 withies, and at due diftances near the bafe of the 

 inner flope to dib in acorns ; which in their fu- 

 ture growth muft incline forwards to avoid the pro- 

 jedling withies, and be fome y^ars before they can 

 attempt a perpendicular. In fuch cafe the crook 

 will be near the butt in the ftouteft part of the 

 timber, and the curve, thus formed in infancy, will 

 retain its fhape as long as the tree endures. 



Having now fhewn the means by which naval- 

 crooks may be obtained at an eafy expencci I pro- 

 ceed 



