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LETTERS ON TREES. 



autumn, and speedily thereafter dying — provision, 

 however, having been made by them in summer, in 

 and by the formation of buds, for the reproduction of 

 similar plants the following year : And that being 

 thus evolved, and thus growing from year to year, 

 and having no actual limits to their reproduction in 

 this way, there is in point of fact no actual limit to 

 the age or to the size to which the tree collectively 

 resulting from them, or produced by them, may 

 attain. — I am, &c. 



