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slender to resist the wind eifectually, and 

 too much hide-bound, to attract the sap 

 sufficiently. Hence, for both reasons, 

 they are not in condition to increase nearly 

 as fast as a pole, which has previously 

 been trained with some degree of atten- 

 tion. — No. 2, on pi. VIII. gives some idea 

 of such produce, (technically Wavers,) as 

 usuall}^ dressed and left by the woodman. 



The attempt to convey accurate ideas 

 of produce is here unnecessary, as well 

 as impossible; for every specific case must 

 differ from others, less or more. But if 

 inattention will, in any given soil, and, in 

 a certain time, produce such figures as 

 No. 2, attention would, in the same time, 

 produce one equal to No. 3 ; and how 

 much the latter is calculated to improve 

 faster than the former, is left to be deter- 

 mined by the intelhgent ; supposing the 

 constitution of each to be the same; but, 

 knowing that this can never happen, we 

 hesitate not to say, that, for several years, 

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