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appears from his recapitulating thofe max^ 

 ims which he in a traft of his, fome time 

 before publifhed, in relation to forefts and 

 woods — All ages by rules and experience^ 

 do confent to a pruning and lopping of 

 trees 5 and if a tree declines from the end 

 we delire it fhould not, that man may, 

 *^ nay muft corred: it by art." By which 

 this very authoritative Mr. Law/on muft ne- 

 cefTarily mean Oaks 5 they being the general 

 growth of woods and forefts. It appears 

 likewife in another part of that author, what 

 led him into that mal-praftice, viz, the do- 

 cility he had obferved in Elms^ AfpSy and 

 Hollies ; to which he might have added the 

 wild Cherry tree and many others, little or 

 nothing ramified in their bodies, by fuch 

 lateral amputations : Yet as unlike to the 

 Oak in that particular, as to conquered na- 

 tions 'y that fail not to revenge the infolence 

 of tyrannical invafion and arbitrary force, by 

 frequent rebellions, 



Mr. Evelyn notwithftanding, becoming 

 a fecond to this good old man, (as he called 

 him) , and forgetting the motto of the learned 

 fociety he was a member of — " NuUius in 

 verba*'— fet out in his Sylva^ to demonftrate 



the 



