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will foon cover the wound over with bark, with- 

 out the addition of any plafter to exclude the air. 

 In cafes, however, of reclaiming neglected plan- 

 tations, an application of this fort may in fome 

 inftances be neceffary, as will be afterwards mown 

 under that head. 



But if a protuberance of three or four inches 

 be left, a thing too frequently done, it mud ne- 

 cefiarily happen, that, before the wound can be 

 covered with bark, the trunk of the tree at the 

 place mtift be enlarged four inches on every fide, 

 or eight inches in diameter ; which may require 

 a period of eight, twelve, or twenty years ; and, 

 confequently, the end of fuch piece of the branch 

 mud be rotten long before it can be covered over 

 with bark : a circumftance which mufl unavoid- 

 ably occafion a fatal blemifh in the wood. * la 

 all cafes, therefore, where fuch protuberances or 

 pieces of the branches have been left, either by 

 carelefs pruning, or from branches having been 

 broken by the wind, or other accidents, they 

 mould be taken clean off, as above advifed. 



In the fhortening of a ftrong branch, the pofi- 

 tion of which is pretty upright, it mould be ob- 

 ferved to draw the faw obliquely acrols it, in 

 fuch a manner as that the face of the wound 

 (hall be incapable of retaining moifture ; and af- 

 M 2 terwards 



* See this illustrated in Ash Planks, figured in Plate !.- 



