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PHUNING. 



matter of conjecture ; but it may fairly be computed at 

 70 feet in height, 14 feet in circumference, and three 

 hundred years old, and containing as many cubic feet 

 of timber, and worth 50 as a timber tree. Now 



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Fig. 8. The King of the Wood. 



in regard to this tree, it needed no pruning, and any- 

 thing done to it in that way would have injured rather 

 than improved or increased its value. 



The Capon-tree, on the other hand, as will be seen 



