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inclies in circumference. Two of the remaining 

 three are to be cut down, leaving only one to form 

 the body of the tree. A Lime, whose hollow part 

 is eleven feet high, is also filling up ; the tree is a 

 foot in diameter. A decayed part, four feet high 

 and twenty-eight inches broad, in a large Elm, is 

 now filling up rapidly with sound wood. About 

 two feet and a half in length on one side, which 

 was for some time left to Nature, still continued 

 to decay till the Composition was applied 5 new 

 wood and bark are now forming. An Elm, at the 

 back of the old fruit-room, near the garden wall, 

 which was entirely hollow, was also headed down 5 

 the new head now spreads about twenty-four feet, 

 and is eighteen feet high. Another large hollow 

 Elm, near the last, was headed down j it after- 

 wards produced a shoot sixty feet high, and three 

 feet and a half in circumference : the hollow was 

 upwards of two feet in diameter. There are a 

 great many other Elms, some of which had wounds 

 ten feet long and two feet broad, now entirely 

 filled up ; besides many Sycamores, Oaks, and 

 other forest trees, all restored to a flourishing state, 

 by having the dead wood cut out, and the Compo- 

 sition applied. An Oak that was headed down 

 about six years ago is represented in Plate XII. 



In hollow trees, the rotten and decayed wood 

 must be cut out at different times, as the new wood 

 comes in contact with it ; but great care must be 

 taken not to cut out too much at once, but to leave 

 enough to support the tree and prevent it from 



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