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the lizes I have mentioned at the beginniilg 

 of this treatife, by having their boughs fo 

 deftroyed, fufFer no danmage thereupon ; as 

 likewife that the latter Oaks fpoken of re- 

 ceive no material fufferance on the occafio-* 

 nal taking off a large arm in the manner 

 prefcribed, and the application of proper vul-* 

 neraries, obliges me to give a definitive ac-* 

 count, v^hat becomes of the knots left in 

 the bodies of Oaks, after the demolition of 

 either boughs, or arms— The ingenious Dr* 

 Goddard before any other author 1 have met 

 with, had the penetration to call fuch k?iofs 

 by the fymbolical name of roots \ And roots 

 \ I thinJ< is every way a proper denomination 

 of them ^ the fame not being continuous 

 ' but contiguous parts only to the body of a 

 tree ; as appears by their frequent falling out 

 of fawn boards when expofed to wind and 

 fun. Whence altho' the body jointly with 

 the boughs of any plant, are but unitedly 

 <;onj[idered as one fingle tree : Still the main 

 body thereof gives fubfiftence to many more 

 virtual trees ; as every bough growing there- 

 from, is in ftridnefs to be confidered as a 

 1 1 little tree ; more efpecially as the fame does 

 j all the fund:ions of a tree growing in the 

 J, earth. Particularly by fending out divers 

 i - fhoots 



