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SUPPLEMENT. 



Success of several Experiments since the PMication of 

 " Observations on the Diseases^ Defects, 8^cP 



OiNCE I published my " Observations on the 

 Diseases, Defects, and Injuries in Fruit and Forest 

 Trees," I have been assiduous in making experi- 

 ments for the sake of improvement. A great many 

 hollow trees that had, when I took them in hand, 

 little more than the bark remaining sound, have 

 within these few years been entirely filled up; 

 others, that were headed down within a few feet of 

 the ground, have their stumps now completely 

 covered by the leading shoot, forming handsome 

 trees ; and the places where they were headed are 

 only discerned by a faint cicatrix. Of a great 

 many, 1 shall only particularise a few instances. 



A Lime-tree, about eighteen inches in diameter, 

 whose trunk was decayed and hollow from top to 

 bottom, to which, after cutting out the decayed 



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