is loft, as far as one of the lateral (hoots ; and 

 this occafions a kind of rectangular junction, 

 which forms a beautiful contrafl with the 

 other fpray, and gives an elegant mode of 

 hanging to the tree. 



This points out another difference between 

 the fpray of the oak, and that of the afh. 

 The fpray of the oak feldom {hoots from 

 the underfides of the branches : and it is this 

 chiefly, which keeps the branches in a horizon- 

 tal form. But the fpray of the afh, often 

 breaking out on the underfide of the branch, 

 forms very elegant pendent boughs. 



The branch of the elm hath neither the 

 ftrength, nor the various abrupt twiftings of 

 the oak ; nor doth it fhoot fo much in hori- 

 zontal directions. Such alfo is the fpray. 

 It has a more regular appearance ; not ftarting 

 off at right angles; but forming it's fhoots 

 more acutely with the parent branch. 



Neither does the fpray of the elm fhoot, 

 like that of the am, in regular pairs, from the 

 fame knot; but in a kind of alternacy. It 

 has generally, at firft, a flat appearance : but 

 as one year's fhoot is added to another, it has 

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