OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. 417 



The scarifications had also disappeared. Some 

 of the wounds were thirteen inches long, eight 

 broad, and three deep. Since the time when it 

 was scarified, the tree has increased ten inches 

 more in circumference than a healthy tree planted 

 at the same time with it about sixteen feet distant, 

 which was not scarified. 



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