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they mtift in faking up) the Tree is for ever 

 after incapacitated to gain fuch Strength and 

 Nourifliment from the Ground as to become 

 good Timber. 



(2.) The fame Reafon holds good likewife 

 in the Top 5 for if you cut off the Top of a 

 Tree, it is forever made a Pollard -of, and 

 t:onfequeiitly not fit for Timber 5 no Tree in- 

 deed ought to be Headed, except he grows 

 crooked, and there be a Shoot or Bud that 

 points dii^eftly upward^ but there are fome 

 Trees that have large pithy Hearts, that ought 

 by mo means to be Headed ^ fuch (I have al* 

 ready intimated) are all the forts of Chefnuts, 

 the Sycamore, Flatanus 5 to this 1 might add 

 on the former account, the Beech, Oak, 

 Elm, ^c~. 'Tis true, we very commonly 

 do, and are oblig'd to Head Lime and Elm 

 for our Avenues or Walks ^ but here we don't 

 expeft Timber, and it would be much better 

 could we avoid it, 



(3.) I catin't in this place pafs over a Fault, a very 

 that I have often obferv'd, and faw but the f^'^^^^ff '^ 

 very Day I am writing this of Heading Trees committed 

 (which, in the Example, was Elm) that had ^" ^^^^^"^ 

 feveral large Branches at the Heading-Place. -^^^^^./^^^ 

 Thefe our ignorant Planter turn'd into Forks, lowahie to 

 whereas he ought to have Headed them into^^^'^'^'^^'^* 

 a fingle Stem, or two Forks is the moft that 

 can be allowed in any Tree •, for when we 

 confider the great number of Buds that muft 

 remain on all thofe Forks, what a Thicket of 

 Shoots muft tiot be expefted, jmoft of them 



S 3 very 



