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Which unfortunate trees moreover, in- 

 ftead of their having lateral germens here 

 and there, fhall fometime$ be found to be 

 extreamly full of them, and likewife per- 

 chance have on their fides, boughs big e- 

 nough to be debarked; But in the main, 

 are a kind of pigmy fhoots that never en* 

 creafe much in bulk, of whatfoever con- 

 tinuance they are ; for if fome occafionally 

 die of thcmfelves, v^hicli is frequently the 

 cafe, others of like fort arife in their ftead ; 

 But during the time of all the furvivor§ 

 growth, they leflen the aliment defigned by 

 nature for the head of their parent, and 

 keep every part of the plant from any ma^ 

 terial encreafe, at leaft much reduce it. And 

 this is the ftate of all Oaks in a higher, or 

 lower degree, as they have more, or lefs 

 germens on their bodies. Yet altho* divers 

 of thefe forts are little likely to be made 

 very fine trees by any art ; ftill the condi- 

 tion of many of them is to be much bet-? 

 tered by thofe who grudge not a little trou* 

 ble, as will be fliewn in the fequel. 



But in order to prevent the very be- 

 ginnings of fome of thefe calamities, as fp 



proper 



