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And the perfection of that, does almost as much con- 

 cern the prosperity of a tree, as of man himself, since 

 homo is but arbor mversa ; which prompts me to this 

 curious, but important advertisement, that the position 

 be likewise sedulously observed. 



7. For, the southern parts being more dilated, and 

 the pores expos'd (as evidently appears in their hori- 

 zontal sections) by the constant excentricity of the 

 hyperbolical circles of all trees, (save just under 

 ^Equator, where the circles concentre, as we find in 

 those hard woods which grow there) ours, being now 

 on the sudden, and at such a season converted to the 

 north, does starve and destroy more trees (how careful 

 soever men have been in ordering the roots, and 

 preparing the ground,) than any other accident 

 whatsoever (neglect of staking, and defending from 

 cattle excepted) ; the importance whereof caused the 

 best of poets, and most experienc'd in this Argument^ 

 giving advice concerning this article, to add. 



1 The card'nal points upon the bark they sign, 

 And as before it stood, in the same line 

 Place to warm south, or the obverted pole ; 

 Such force has custom, in each tender soul. 



Which monition, though Pliny, and some others 

 think good to neglect, or esteem indifferent, I can 

 confirm from frequent losses of my own, and by 

 particular tryals ; having sometimes transplanted 

 great trees at mid-summer with success (the earth 

 adhering to the roots) and miscarried in others, 

 where this circumstance only was omitted. 



1 Quinetiam Coeli regionem in cortice signant, 

 Ut quo quaeque modo steterit, qua parte calores 

 Austrinos tulerit, quae terga obverterit axi, 

 Restituant : Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est. 



Gear. li. I. 



