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therefrom. Before I proceed further, it is 

 proper to notify one relative to the operati- 

 on more, and that is, that whatever very 

 fniall boughs, or twigs there are immediate- 

 ly under, or over the boughs debarked, they 

 fhould not be meddled with that feafon^, 

 at leaft but in part ; but of which more 

 hereafter, with fuller directions. 



To relate next, the efpecial confequence's 

 of the before mentioned operation ^ the very 

 fmalleft of the debarked boughs, ufually die 

 the beginning of the fecond year, and fome 

 of them fhew their mortality nearly ap* 

 proaching the fir ft — -Thofe as big as the 

 handle of a whip die in courfe a little after— 

 And thofe as big as the handle of a pitch- 

 fork, fometimes live, yet but rarely, to the 

 third year. I fay indeed live, but in no 

 time latterward, do any of them ufually 

 vegetate, fo as to encreafe in bignefs, or 

 length 'y but are able only to throw out 

 leaves from buds before formed, and thofe 

 not full blown. But no certain period of 

 their perifliing can be affigned. For as the 

 fummers following prove moift, or dry, 

 warm, or cold, and as they ftand more or 

 lefs expofed to fun, or drying winds, they 



die 



