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the Family of Pruners before-mentioned 

 could not reach. 



Shaken Timber (or what are called JVind 

 Shakes,) is a very common defect, but not 

 in every case easy to be accounted for. 

 Its name points out the general opinion 

 concerning it; which is allowed to be 

 correct to a certain extent. Undoubt- 

 edly, this sort of defect may be sometimes 

 found in trees, that never came under the 



The displacing of rotten boughs can in no case do 

 harm, on the contrar}', in many it must do much good. 

 Give them liberty to do that^ as well as to pick up 

 such as fall spontaneously, and make an example of 

 such as break the rule, by expelling them the premises 

 in future ; or by legal means, where the offence is 

 flagrant. I do not call upon the proprietors to sacri- 

 fice any thing, I only request them not to let a mis- 

 taken notion deprive them of the opportunity of doing 

 good. It was the precept of unerring wisdom, " Let 

 ** nothing be lost." If, indeed, we can contribute to 

 warm these our fellow-mortals, without at all dimi- 

 nishing the comforts of ourselves and families, surely 

 the epithet Human, would be much too good for the 

 mortal who could refuse it. 



