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ther, before the period of the next fall, 

 such stool produce one or two stout 

 healthy trees, from twenty five to thirty 

 feet high, or many weak ill'-formed shoots^ 

 the best of which are aptly enough deno- 

 minated Wavers, 



Fig. 1. pi. VIII. gives some idea of the 

 produce of an oak stool, growing on a 

 tolerably good soil. — It is supposed to 

 have grown from the last fall, without any 

 sort of attention ; and, therefore, supposing 

 it a period which is common, about 

 twenty-one years, or, at least, two-thirds 

 of the average time which individuals 

 enjoy their estates, we regard it as the 

 beggarly produce of a system of absurdity, 

 equally disgraceful to the national intel- 

 lect and industry. — The sap which would 

 have supported one or two stout, free- 

 growing, young trees, has been squander- 

 ed among a great number of shoots, col- 

 lectively, and, individually, of little value 

 upon any soil, but more particularly where 

 it is bad; as there such produce, the bark 



