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vv^oodman's bands, yet it may safely be 

 presumed to be more common to such as 

 have. For Avhcn they meet with a subject, 

 pliable enough to bend, it usually gets 

 what they call a Dressingy{\\Q should call 

 it a Trimming, all the branches being 

 lopped oiF;) after which, if it be free- 

 grown, the greater part of the sap will 

 ascend, and break out in shoots, at and 

 near the summit, so as to occasion the 

 tree to be top-heavy in the growing season. 

 Should the wind blow furiously against 

 one so situated, if it does not break, it 

 may be expected to split ; so far as 

 amounts to a shake, or internal wound ; 

 which having once happened, can seldom 

 heal ; as the same cause, frequently re- 

 curring, will generally continue to enlarge 

 it, in proportion to the increased size of 

 the tree. But should it not recur, still 

 the healing of the wound must take place 

 the same season the misfortune happened, 

 or not at all ; as, before another, the two 

 i?ides of the fissure would become too dead 



