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oppreflion; the efted whereof may be feen in 

 figures No. IL and III. and in hedge-rows where 

 the timber (lands thick, as No. IV. reprefents. 

 The centre flick of the three, growing behind the 

 others, and not finding room to fpend its fap by 

 rifing betwixt their tops, made its way out to the 

 fun and air, as appears in the draught annexed, 

 fprming a capital knee and valuable crook above it. 

 In thefe inllances we find a plain and ufeful leflbn, 

 viz. that trees, impelled to a certain diredion 

 whilil young, will continue growing in the fame di- 

 redion as long as they exifl. Their natural ten- 

 dency is doubtlefs towards a perpendicular; but 

 if conftrained to change this difpofition early, they 

 will proceed horizontally till they have room to 

 afcend freely ; and though they then immediately 

 rife upwards, the curve they have taken^ will in 

 great meafure be preferved, even when the op- 

 prefibrs which caufed it are no more. Hence it is 

 manifeft, that any quick-growing trees of fmall 

 value, may be ufed as inftruments for forcing feed- 

 ling, oaks out of their upright line. Cuttings o£ 

 coppice withy* will, by the freedom of their growth, 



* It may be obferved, that I no where recommend the beech as 

 a companion to the oak. It is in fa^. too mighty for it. When 

 one Hands near the other, the tree of the firft confequence yields to 

 the quicker growth of its rival, and comes to little. 



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