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the fap the root could imbibe to the upper extre-* 

 mities for vent, their Ihafts break out into innu- 

 merable fprays, that exhauft the fap before it reaches 

 the top, which confequently perifhes for want of 

 fupply. 



Thefe trees fhould therefore be either planted 

 (ingle, in fmall clumps, or in hedge-rows. The 

 latter is the mod profitable method, as the fuckers 

 which fpring from the roots will, under the pro- 

 ^edtion of the hedge, furnilh a continued fucceflioii, 



I have heard of elms containing twelve tons 

 round meafnre ; fome of my own are three, one, 1 

 believe, fix or more; and I remember one^ for 

 which its owner refufed twelve guineas. This was 

 the majeflick ornament of a pleafure-ground. Its 

 fiiaft was fifty feet jn length, without fpray or ble- 

 mifh 5 viewed at a diflance, it made the finefl may- 

 pole that ever eyes beheld, having a round head like 

 a garland at the top. It has been fince fallen, but 

 what it fold for, or whither it went, I cannot fay ; 

 though probably to the dock-yard, being fit for a 

 keel of the firft magnitude. On fight of this tree, 

 jt evidently appeared to have been as much in- 

 debted to art as nature for the elegance of its form ; 

 and as it grew oppofite to the centre of a gentle-. 



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