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'underboughs in the manner fhortly follow- 

 ing. But I think it will not be amifs to re- 

 late firfr, that the propereft feafon for that 

 operation, is that part of the fpring when 

 the bark, ?.-S the phrafe is, runs well ; and 

 it is to be obferved, that the fap in young 

 Oaks, will not ufually run fo foon as in old ; 

 and in the former, I often find it will run 

 till midfummer, and even till har\xft after a 

 lliower of rain, and not infrequently at mi- 

 chaelnias, if the feafon be warm and fliowery. 

 Which length of time, will be of great ufe 

 to thofe who have many, and are difpofed 

 to fubjecl them to this difcipline. 



1 Aivi now come to lay, that it is at ei- 

 ther of fuch times my pradice is, to take oft 

 the bark of the boughs, I intend to deftroy, 

 clofe to the body of the tree, if any thing 

 clofer on the underJJde of the boughs than 

 the upper, the reafon of which will foon 

 be found by an obferving deiarker. To 

 perform which rightly, the bark of every 

 laid bough clofe to the body of the tree 

 fhould be cut thorough, with a knife fome- 

 what hooking, to the very w^ood quite 

 round, in the firft place : next another cir- 

 cular cut mufl be made at a diftance in pro- 

 I portion 



