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We shall not here point out the conceaU 

 ed bad tendency of the method, as that 

 will come in, more properly, elsewhere ; 

 but we may remark generally, however, 

 that such directions, from such an author, 

 could not fail to do immense mischief; 

 for, as has been before intimated, if it 

 were discovered that Evelyn had not hit 

 upon a practicable and desirable method 

 of training timber, it was natural to infer 

 the matter impracticable in itself, and 

 hence generally neglected. 



It has been on all hands allowed, that, 

 as the advocate of planting, he was 

 singularly successful. How much has 

 his country to regret that he was not the 

 same in regard to pruning ; as, in that 

 case, the benefit must have been im- 

 mense. The different results may, how- 

 ever, be very naturally accounted for: 

 — the former required only such argu- 

 ments as any man of abilit-es and obser- 

 vation might furnish ; — the latter, a de- 



