88S OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, &C. 



■be made quite smooth, when the Composition 

 may be spread over the whole surface, according 

 to the directions ah'eady given. It should, how- 

 ever, be observed, that the Composition, when 

 employed for this particular purpose, should have 

 an equal quantity of the powder of alabaster mixed 

 with the dry powder generally directed to be used 

 after the Composition is laid on, in order to render 

 the surface harder, and of course better able to re- 

 sist the bad effects of the dripping of trees, of rain, 

 frost anisnoAv: but this addition is by no means 

 necessary in the usual application to the sides of 



trees. 



In consequence of this process, the vigour of 

 the roots will operate so powerfully in the course 

 of the succeeding Spring, that a considerable num- 

 ber of buds and branches will shoot forth round 

 the stump, which, with proper care and attention, 

 may be trained to many valuable purposes, either 

 straight or crooked, for knee-timber or other uses : 

 and by retaining only so many of these shoots as 

 are designed to grow for any particular intention, 

 more than one half will be saved, in point of time, 

 according to the proportions of common growth : 

 for, if a young tree, be planted in a soil equal in 

 quality to the site of the old stump, the shoot grow- 

 ing from the latter will, in eight or ten years, attain 

 to a size which the single plant will hardly acquire 

 in twice that period. There are also many useful 

 purposes of husbandry, as hop-poles, and other poles 



