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matter of conjecture ; but it may fairly be computed at 

 70 feet in beight, 14 feet in circumference, and three 

 hundred years old, and containing as many cubic feet 

 of timber, and worth £50 — as a timber tree. Now 



Fis?. S.— The Kiiiir of the Wood. 



in regard to this tree, it needed no pruning, and any- 

 thing done to it in that way would have injured rather 

 than improved or increased its value. 



The Capon-tree, on the other hand, as will be seen 



