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felves i befides, that the branches of large 

 trees can rarely be brought fo low as to 

 be lay'd, but cuttings can at all times be 

 had in plenty. 



I would recommend, before the cuttings 

 are put in the ground, as above direded, 

 to dip the part that is cut in tar or melted 

 pitch, or with a hot iron melt it into the 

 cut 5 becaufe when moiflure infmuates 

 where a branch is cut, efpecially in the 

 mulberry tree, it generally makes the bark 

 part from the wood and grow rotten ; be- 

 fides the pitching over of the cut will as I 

 imagine, hinder it from taking in a large 

 quantity of crude and improper juices, 

 which will now be forced to drain through 

 the bark, and the better prepare it to put 

 on the nature of a root ; the fame method 

 of pitching fhould alfo be ufed to thofe 

 cuts which are made in pruning the 

 mulberry tree, that the rain may not in- 

 jure it. 



A late French author has made fome 

 improvements in the raifmg of all trees 

 from cuttings, by which he, with appear- 

 ance of realbn, fhews that they will more 

 certainly take root. He twifts a piece of 

 brafs v^'ire, round the feveral parts of the 



branch 



