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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno 1799. 



///. Abstract of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at 

 Lyndon, in Rutland, 1/97. With some Remarks on the Recovery of injured 

 Trees. By Thes. Barker, Esq. p. 24. 



Chi the recovery of injured trees. — About the year 17S8 or 1789, a Lucombe 

 oak was planted, the top of which might be about 6 feet high, but was broken off 

 in coming down. In spring, the tree put out at the highest 2 buds, but much 

 better at some lower ones. In 1791, the highest 2 buds again put out, yet, as be- 

 fore, very indifferently ; however, a lower bud, about 5 feet high, put out a strong 

 shoot, about 1 5 inches long ; but, as side branches are apt to do, it did not grow 

 upright, but slanting. In winter I fixed that strong shoot upright, by tying it to 

 another shoot, which came out of the opposite side of the tree; and in 1792 it 

 made a very strong, straight, and upright shoot, 3 feet 9 inches long, and as thick 

 as a moderate finger, and has continued thriving ever since. The tree is now 

 about 18 feet high, and 11 inches in girth at the bottom ; it has been pretty well 

 cleared of boughs about half way up, and may perhaps, by degrees, be cleared se- 

 veral feet higher. 



In the winter of 1789, an ash tree was cut down, which, falling against a young 

 oak, as thick as my leg, beat it down. I had the oak cut close to the ground, and 



