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more a great number ; the remedy being 

 abundantly worse than the disease. 



Here the following question naturally 

 presents itself: Can forest trees he pruned 

 without damaging the timber ? — which 

 may be satisfactorily solved, by consider- 

 ing, how it comes to pass that we have 

 any clean sound tin^jber at all. — Nature, 

 unassisted, certainly produces none of 

 the former ; and according to Mr. For- 

 syth, we can have none of the latter with- 

 out using his composition; whilst facts 

 prove we have a large quantity of both. 

 Consequently, we may safely assert, in 

 contradiction to all such cobweb argu- 

 ments, that we are indebted to pruning, of 

 some sort, for all the clean timber rve have; 

 and that it is a safe operation, if properly 

 performed. 



Much has been said concernino; the ef- 

 ficacy of the composition, that is truly 

 wonderful ; language has been ransacked 



