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their tops, which by fwinging about with 

 every motion of wind has proved njofe de- 

 trimental than the former. For in the for- 

 mer cafe, their ill fuccefs was owing for 

 want of a noofe of proper leather about the 

 head of the Oak, as I have found upon 

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But might I be thought qualified to re- 

 commend a better time and fafer method of 

 that kind j I would .advife thofe who have it 

 in their power, and withal fuch long hv'd 

 views for the good of pofterity, to attempt 

 the bending fuch only as are not bigger, or 

 not much, than a man's thumb ; and that 

 fo, as the bending part fhould be on the 

 lower end of the plant, and fo for ever to 

 continue. Yet can tPiis performance be only 

 fecurely executed, where no traffick of cat- 

 tle, or idle people come. But this is to be 

 faid in favour of a tree bent at the lower 

 end, and not only that fuch operation is 

 the readier to be performed, but that it is 

 not, in that pofition, fo likely to be riven by 

 intenfe froft after a great fall of wet ^ which 

 is an incident many times to trees crooked 

 upwards and thereto expofed in their bend, 

 fo much the more. 



That 



