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Wife that in their own form they are ftrait 

 and not over crooked, or curling. 



Yet may a young Oak have all the 

 good qualities before mentioned, and ftill 

 be incapable of ever becoming a large tree. 

 As for example — where an Oakling is un- 

 happily grown from an old ftubb, or father's 

 head, as woodmen call it, how vigorous 

 foever the firft efforts are ; which indeed 

 for a time are obferved to be more fo, than 

 thofe which grow from fingle ftubbs : Yet 

 no fooner is the body and the head of the 

 former grown to that content, that the old 

 roots can carry them to y but both body 

 and head ftand ftill ; by reafon that the roots 

 themfelves are frequently fo aged, as to 

 have no further progreffive motion : And 

 this is the ufual fate of the offspring of fu- 

 perannuated ftubbs, whofe growths have been 

 cut down ten, or a dozen times, perhaps 

 more, as fyha ccedua ; yet while their off- 

 fpring is young are able to fupport it lu* 

 ftily, 



Nov/ I am entered on this head, it is 

 not lefs proper, the unknowing agent ftipuld 

 informed what fort of Oaks are lefs pro- 



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