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per'ainly very inlercstin«>: ; I wii! therefore (a.^reeably to 

 vour wish) inform you of my success, and in vvliat niau- 

 jier J have obtained it. 



The injnry which is done to timber trees, and other 

 trees, from the loss of Jaroe branches, occasioned by 

 wi:id, or otiiei-wise, is much greater than peop!- in gene- 

 ra! are a WHre of. Every alttntive person may easily 

 perceive the local injury which takes place at and near 

 the wound, xyhcre the tree becatnes evidently rotten ; 

 but there is, in addiiion the'cto. a general injury to the 

 tree, which is produced in the following manner. When 

 weights in at the wous'.ded part, it fi; id's its way d. wn- 

 wards, betv/een the solid wood and the bai k, through tiie 

 capillary inlcrvais where the sap rises. As the wet, so 

 introduced, cannot get out, it frequently tends to cause 

 the bai'k to decay at the l)ottom nf the tree, just above, 

 or at the top of the ground. The eapiiiary atti-aetion 

 which causes the sap to I'i.se, ijrows g adually weaker; 

 the tree gets sickly ; the tips of its upper boughs become 

 rotten ; and that fresh injury lets in njove wet, which 

 hastens the general d:'cay : so that timber trees of tlie 

 first size souietifnes become holjow, or otherwise un- 

 sound, though the whole injury Oi-iginatcd;, perhaps, 

 from the loss of a singie large branch. 



To remedy these evils, I have ap.di'd to the wounds 

 a composiiion that I discoveied many years ago, and 

 which, when properly used, has succeeded even beyond 

 rny expectation ; lor not only the bark grows over the 

 wounds, o-radualiy pasiiing offthe composition, but even 

 the white wood, as it is conmjonly called, grows under 

 tne new bark, so as to protluee a radical and a complete 

 local cure. Whether tije ktcal cure thus accomplished, 

 Aviil. or will not, stoj) the general decay, which pi'occeds 

 from the united causes 1 have alluded to, will depend up- 

 on the degree of genera! ii j try that the tree had received 

 ]irevious to the composition haviiig- i)e€n applied, ^ndl 

 likewise on the iiWin'>'Cr of small branches, or bcugjis, 

 bioken off; inasmuch uc a iree can receive, in tlic niiui' 



