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If it were material to evince mv further 

 diligent inquiries therein, I fliould alfo fay, 

 that I confulted likewife Mr. Lewenhoek^ a 

 great naturaliil in thcfe affairs ; yet found 

 not one kind Ariadne to help me out of the 

 labyrinth I was got into. But that dark 

 and gloomy, was turned into a lively prof- 

 peel of m.y being, thence extricated, by vir- 

 tue of a treatife which a little while after 

 fell into my hands, wrote by Mr. Cook^ a 

 folid and fenfible writer, and a gardiner to 

 the then Eurl of Ejjex ; upon the right or- 

 dering of foreil trees, among many other 

 articles. Who thinking Mr. E\:ely?i's me- 

 thod of pruning Oaks to be faulty only in 

 point of ti/}:e^ became thereupon verv fan- 

 guine, that by an early fummer pruning of 

 the boughs, that is, after the rapid flow of 

 the lap in the fpring had fpent it's felf in 

 fail blown leaves , the remainder illuing up 

 the body Vv'ould not recoil fo, as ever after 

 to make any eiteclual effort to a ramificati- 

 on little, or much near the parts difmem- 

 bered. Inftead of which, on my reading 

 his bock carefully, I found, to mv mortifi- 

 cation, by his ovv'n confeffion, that he was 

 in the end propofed miffaken. For altho' 

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