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the inclination to practise it to any con- 

 siderable extent. 



We next proceed to notice the conse- 

 quences, or advantages of this very sim- 

 ple ?net/iod, in order to shew whether or 

 not it possesses the other requisites, be- 

 forementioned. In doing which, we ob- 

 serve, in the first place, that the real, or 

 pretended, danger, incurred by taking off 

 large branches, is completely done away ; 

 provided the business is begun in pro- 

 per time, namely, when a knife will per- 

 form the operation, and repeated every 

 second or third year, till the stem is 

 cleared to the desired height, as then the 

 branches to be displaced must always 

 prove somewhat small ; and, therefore, 

 when taken off close to the stem, the 

 wounds Avill heal very soon. 



In the second place, the stem and sum- 

 jnit of the tree, having the advantage of 



