to dilcharge the future refource of fap * 

 Of which fort of plants it is again further 

 to ' be remarked^ that if their heads are cut 

 oif neatly by any inflrument, they much 

 readier ilioot again from their roots, in like 

 manner as germens when fo treated by hook^ 

 handbill^ &c. Further — it is well known 

 to the moft ignorant hufbandman how much 

 more readily the grafs grows when cut by 

 {harp fithes, than when the like herbage 

 has been trodden on, and battered with 

 catties teeth and feet. 



And again as to the latter manner of 

 bark-Jlitting, viz. that by the Ax ; I muil: 

 acknowledsie that there is much more trou- 

 ble in the execution of that fort, than fuch 

 as require only the operation of the knife, 

 fince there muft be ordinarily two light lad- 

 ders of different lengths to command the 

 diftindl heights of the bodies of the OakSo 

 But I have fufficiently experienced that gen- 

 tlemen therefrom will find their account in 

 all growing Oaks, of whatfoever lize, where 

 needful, and where it can be performed. 

 And I perfuade my felf to make the credit 

 of the ufefulnefs of that operation fo reafon- 

 able before I have done, that it needs not to 



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