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TREATISE 



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FOREST-TREES. 



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The elm TREE, 



The Species are : 



1. The fmall-leav'd or tme English Elm; 



2. The English Elm with large rough leaves ; 



3. The French Elm ; 



4. The rough-bark'd Dutch Elm; 



5. The Cornish Elm; 



6. The Red Elm from Canada; 



'The Scots Elm m England, call'd the Witch Elm ; 

 The English Elm with ftrip'd leaves, 



EI E five forts firft mentioned are propagated by layers or 

 fuckers, the former of which is by much the better me- 

 thod, as the trees, fo raifed, will, in their firft ftages, advance 

 more in growth, and make handfomer plants than theie taken 

 from the roots of old trees ; neither will they fo foon, or in fo 

 great a number, produce fuckers, which retards the growth 

 of the tree. I fhall therefore firft defcribe the manner of railing 



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