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boughs, or arms. But of the precife num- 

 ber of boughs to be at any time debarked^ 

 as their forms, conditions, and fizes are dif- 

 ferent ; I think no invariable rules can be 

 laid down, and defined : Time and pradice 

 will be the beft inftrudtorsj the ingenious a- 

 gent will foon attain that knowledge, and the 

 llupid never. I hope I have faid enough to 

 inftrud the former, and never fo much will 

 be fufficient for the latter. 



A FURTHER prefcription Is not un- 

 worthy of attention, namely — That it is not 

 proper to debark all boughs as they came in 

 order of growth ; but to take the ftrongeft 

 firft, leaving fome fmaller, (as in part before 

 intimated) that grow between, above, or be- 

 low the larger, that they may for a time 

 continue to relieve the tree of it's thencefor- 

 ward encreafing ftore of fap ; which will 

 naturally enfue upon debarking the larger 

 boughs. Nor do I always take oS fuch fmall 

 ones as were for that reafon left, even at the 

 next debarking feafon ; but many times 

 leave fome of them on longer, to arreft the 

 afcending fap in order to the enlargement of 

 the body of the tree: Which otherwife 

 might become too flender for it's height ; and 



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