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—Why the injury to fuch trees is likewifc 

 but moderate, namely becaufe there are al- 

 ways collateral capillary veffels elfewhere 

 open, (fuch operations being ufually per- 

 formed at the latter end of May, when the 

 trees are in full leaf^) But fuch difcharges 

 the Oak has not the leaft refort to, whofe 

 whole verdant head has been gnawed off, 

 and confequently great difcompofure to the 

 future efforts of their roots muft naturally 

 enfue. 



The accurate Mr. Ray^ In his wifdom of 

 God in the Creation, inftances the cafe of a 

 great number of Mulberry trees, that en- 

 tirely died by means of their leaves being 

 gathered clean off, to feed filk worms. 

 Whereupon may it not be fuppofed, that the 

 fap in the roots of fuch grew firft torpid, 

 on the deprivation of their correfponding 

 vents — afterward entirely ftagnated and cor- 

 rupted ? Yet had not fuch mulberry trees 

 totally died, is it not reafonable to prefume, 

 that the like fufferance in their head would 

 have occafioned fome invifible languid effort 

 in their roots ? But taking my leave of Eafl- 

 ern winds — Hot fudden vernal feafons — Long 

 dry Summers — Robuftan Aurelias^ and all 

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