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when the death of the tree must follow : 

 its exit may be slow, but is not, on that 

 account, less certain. 



Of the remedy for this evil, it may be 

 Sufficient to say ^ere,--Remove the cause, 

 and, in most cases, the effect will cease ; 

 but should the obstruction, thus brought 

 on, continue afterwards, the trees are to 

 be treated as will be directed for others 

 that are hide-bound. 



PRUNING. 



A HIS important part of the subject has, 

 thus far, been treated in rather a negative 

 point of view; as almost every thing ad- 

 vanced serves, in some degree, to shew 

 what it has not done, or rather the loss the 

 country sustains, in consequence of its 

 being little practised, and less under^ 

 stood. We come next to treat of it more 

 directly, by shewing what it may do, in- 

 cluding the means to be adopted, under 



