the better of fuch habitual indifpofitlons, 

 and reftore their parent to a healthful ftate, 

 by contujing all fuch germens the firft year, 

 and at the fame time Jlitting the bark of 

 the body alfo, in four equal parts from top 

 to bottom, and renewing the fame operati- 

 on the fecond year, in the interftice between 

 the former flits j as alfo by repeating the 

 contujion of the newly fprung out germens ; 

 fliould any part of the body ramufculate the 

 fecond year, and bring forth fuch illegiti-r 

 mate offsprings. 



For where the vital parts are not very 

 deficient — Or the underftratas of earth are 

 not much refiftant to a further progrefs of 

 a tree's roots — there need be no defpondence 

 of a cure, even where fuch germens are a-^ 

 bundant — Altho' I had rather acknowledge 

 my infufiiciency than prove it, by pretend- 

 ing to give perfed; diagnofticks where they 

 are, or where they are not remediable : 

 What I can give any man hopes of fucceecj- 

 ing in, from my own experience, is, where 

 there is no great defedl in nature, in a 

 ftunted or unthrifty Oak, fuppoflng it has 

 much more in content than what is called 

 timber—Where the foil is not fo unfavour=T 



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