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cut into planks and boards, internal blemishes and 

 faults are discovered in them, which appear to have 

 been occasioned by the early injuries which the tree 

 had received ; the texture of the wood not uniting 

 where the wound was originally given ; though, 

 from the youthful vigour of nature, the bark has 

 closed, and an external cure been evidently per- 

 formed. 



As a most efficacious remedy to prevent the evils 

 that I have described, with all their destructive 

 consequences, and to restore sound timber w^here 

 the symptoms of decay are already apparent, I con- 

 fidently recommend the use of my Composition, 

 which, being applied in a proper manner to the 

 w^ounded or injured part, w^ill infallibly prevent the 

 bleeding of trees, or the oozing of juices through 

 the wounds of limbs or branches that have been 

 cut off in the middle of Summer, when they are in 

 their highest vigour, and most rapid flow of vege- 

 tation ; by which means, any wasteful discharge of 

 the juices is prevented, and they are duly confined 

 to their natural operations of giving nourish- 

 ment, growth, and fertility, to their respective 

 bodies. 



By employing the proposed remedy, trees of all 

 kinds, whether in gardens or orchards, in parks or 

 forests, may with greater safety and advantage be 

 pruned or lopped in the Spring, or early in the 

 Summer, than in the Winter season ; as the Com- 

 position, when properly applied, repels the flow of 

 the juices through the wound, causes a more active 



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