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if there be any ; which of either fort hap^ 

 pen more frequently in pafture timber than 

 in woods, (the faid boughs not being bigger 

 than the fizes I have advifed to be debarked,) 

 And it is furpriiing what an eclair cijfemejit 

 fuch a drejjing as the deftroying the capillary 

 germens by contufion^ and the larger by 

 debarking^ will give to all well grown Oaks 5 

 over, and above the additional value fuch 

 operations bring. The timber proprietor 

 otherwife fells, while the bodies, are thereby 

 in part obumbrated, what himfelf cannot 

 clearly fee beforehand the value of, and 

 the buyer will hardly take the pains to fliew 

 him. 



As it concerns me to be as little as may 

 be begging the queftion only, when I am 

 fpeakiug of the advantages to the Oak at- 

 tainable by the energy of fuch contiifions 5 

 1 know not better where to introduce the 

 correfpondent in fiances, than here, that nei- 

 ther Fern— Tanfy— Nettles — nor any other 

 vegetables, if trodden on, or their heads by 

 anv other means much bruifed, when in 

 full fap, will throw out any more like tra- 

 duces from their roots, had they any other 

 fupplemental way, as contufed germens have 



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