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genus) are the worft. Nor need I be at any 

 further ftudy to iliuftrate this, than by one 

 fnigle parallel. 



V/hat therefore I fhall urge by way of 

 allufion, is from the late ingenious art (when 

 ufed on proper occaiions of Anti-vegetation^ 

 viz. The defirable reftraint, in that cafe, 

 that is put upon the over-vigorous growth of 

 the flioots of vines and divers wall-trees by 

 a difcreet pinching them off. Which has 

 no unappofite refemblance, to the rough and 

 ragged wounds, left on the remaining parts 

 of the boughs of any trees, which have been 

 browfed off, by cattle : whereby enfues fo 

 great an obftrudlion to the revegetation of 

 fuch plants, that the vulgar opinion of coun- 

 trymen is, that their bite is venomous. 



I NEED go no further back for aftual 

 proof of fuch exiftencies and their effedis 

 than the fpring 1743, when there were 

 great numbers of well grown Oaks thought 

 to be pafi: ull recovery thereby, and ever 

 having leaves again. And this diftemper, 

 for fo I think I may call it, was epidemical 

 that feafon in Suffolk and Effex^ fave where 

 the Oaks were extreamly v^ell defended from 

 a fuch 



