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fore I count it vain to attempt the removal of it, 

 without taking away the caufe, and making the ground 

 better ; which being done, it will be proper enough 

 to rub down the Trees in a wet day with an hair 

 cloath. 



Trees likewife are fornetimes Bark-bound, efpecial- 

 ly fuch, the grain of whole Bark runs round the body 

 of the Tree, as in Cherry-trees, and not tfraight up- 

 ward, according to the grain of the Tree, as in Ap- 

 ples, Pears, &c. 



For the Bark is not generally, as I fuppofe, nourish- 

 ed by apportion of a new rinde to it, as the fubftance 

 of the Tree is, but by interpolation of -particles, a- 

 midft the particles of the rinde already made, which 

 if it be fo hard as not to admit other Particles for its 

 enlargement, there can be no new addition of a new 

 coat of wood, which ought to accrue every year to 

 the Tree, for there will be no fpace wherein the fap 

 may afcend, which is to be hardned into fuch new 

 wood, unlefs by renting the whole coat of Bark,which 

 fornetimes happens. 



The remedy for this difeafe, both in Cherry-trees, 

 and other Trees, thofe chiefly whofe Barks are hard- 

 ned and gro vn crufty by long (landing in fhadowy pla- 

 ces os barren ground, is, chat the year after their re- 

 moval, or upon addition of better foil in ftreighc 

 grained Barks ; and without either removal or addi- 

 tion of foil in Cherry-trees, and other crofs grained 

 Barks, or in any Trees whofe Barks rend of their own 

 accord, the Barks be flit from the top of the Tree to 

 the bottom of the flock, and that according to the 

 bignefs of the Tree, in one, two, or three places : 

 This is a Chyrurgicai remedy that never fails, and is 

 eafily performed* 



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