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I know of no tree, that pruning either roots or branches has 

 worfe efFedls on than this, which often kills, or otherways irre- 

 coverably fhunts them, as I have often found by fad experience ; 

 therefore the plants fhould be reduced to the form you dehre, in 

 the nurfery, by rubbing ojfF all ill-placed buds, or, with your 

 finger and thumb, pinching away the improper branches foon 

 after their appearance, while young and tender, more than 

 which pruning they ought never to have. 



This is a plant of extraordinary beauty and ftatelinefs, and 

 highly deferves a place in all noble and elegant plantations. 

 There is a tree of it in the gardens of the Earl of" Peterborough, 

 at Parfons-green, near London, which I faw in full bloom for 

 feveral years fuccelTively : It is above fifty feet high, and the 

 trunk in proportion, and would have been much larger, but that 

 having been planted in a wildernefs quarter, it was long negledl- 

 ed, and injured by its branches being overhung, and the roots 

 intangled with other trees, which prevented its receiving due 

 nourifliment. Mr Catelby, in his Natural Hiftory of Carolina, 

 mentions trees of it in America,, thirty feet circumference in the 

 trunk, and the timber is highly valued by the Americans for its 

 Jlrength and duration. 



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