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lesser magnitude, and lesser proportional stoutness than 

 this, I consider as unfit for judicious removal, in exposed 

 situations, and destitute of proper stamina to resist the 

 elements. To this injunction I may add, that in the 

 above, as in every case, we should labour to acquire, by 

 observation and study, a knowledge of that nice and 

 adequate adaptation to circumstances of the protecting 

 properties, which nature displays in her more or less open 

 dispositions of wood, and learn to follow her provident 

 example. All that the best preceptive efibrts can do is, 

 to point out and illustrate the principle in its general 

 bearings : it is judgment and experience only that can 

 give the practice. 



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