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juftly determined that point in his Siris ^ 

 wherein he afRrms, that " natural produftions 

 are not all equally perfeft." Conformable 

 therefore more to the matter of the two lat- 

 ter dogmatifts, I have found caufe to aver 

 in the particular of bark4ancing^ (which ope- 

 ration has moftly been thought ufeful, only 

 on the bodies and boughs of unthrifty fruit 

 trees,) that the fame has a very kindly ef- 

 fect, judicioufly performed, to the promot- 

 ing a greater thrift than otherwife, on the 

 moft vigorous Oaks. And that fuch Ihew 

 thereon, as much fign of gratulation, as a 

 turgid carnation, or pickatee, on Jlitting 

 their hofe, or pod. But if in fome happy 

 produftions of the Oak, the bark through 

 a thinnefs and fupplenefs of it's contexture, 

 is of it's felf fufficiently yielding and exten- 

 dible for the purpofes of nature : Still bark-- 

 lancing is abfolutcly neceffary on occafion of 

 mortifying by debarking any of their boughs, 

 to prevent the ill efFefts alluded to. It is 

 likewife as neceffary to be performed on all 

 tranfplanted Oaks whatfoever, that are of 

 any ftature, and have flood any time, to 

 relax the cohefion of the bark to the body, 

 which neceffarily enfues, from the fmaller 

 aliment that their roots for fome years are 



capable. 



