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SECT. III. 



ID ESIDES thefe requifites of beauty in a 

 ~' tree, there are other things of an adven- 

 titious kind, which often add great beauty to 

 it. And here I cannot help lamenting the 

 capricious nature of piciurefque ideas. In 

 many inftances they run counter to utility -, 

 and in nothing more than in the adventitious 

 beauties afcribed to trees. Many of thefe are 

 derived from the injuries the tree receives, or 

 the difeafes, to which it is fubject. Mr. 

 Lawfon, a naturalift of the lail age, thus enu- 

 merates them. " How many forefts, and 

 woods, fays he, have we, wherein you fhall 

 have, for one lively, thriving tree, four, nay 

 fometimes twenty-four, evil thriving, rotten, 

 and dying trees : what rottennefs ! what hol- 

 lownefs ! what dead arms ! withered tops ! 

 curtailed trunks ! what loads of mofles ! droop- 

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