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the edges of the wound immediately begin to heal, and 

 the new wood advances upon and covers by degrees 

 the surface of the cut ; this keeps rapidly increasing, so 

 that by the end of the summer, or rather the fall of the 

 leaf, a great portion of the wound will be found cicatrized, 

 or covered with a layer of new wood, and any decay froni 

 the lodgment of wet in a great measure prevented. 



No tree bears transplanting when of considerable size 

 better than the Gean, and we have removed with success 

 plants from twenty to thirty feet in height, some of which 

 had originated from suckers, others from the seed. As in 

 the case of all trees that we have removed of a large size, 

 they suffered a check by the operation, but from this they 

 generally recovered in the course of two, or, at most, three 

 seasons. 



To the specimens mentioned by Loudon, the largest of 

 which seem to average about nine feet in circumference, 

 we may add several trees at Dunston Hill, near Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, the seat of Ralph Carr, Esq. ; one of these, 

 growing upon the lawn, measures seven feet in circum- 

 ference at two feet from the ground, and three others, in 

 a small plantation, are respectively five feet six inches, 

 five feet three inches, and four feet eleven inches in circum- 

 ference, with a height of upwards of fifty feet. 



