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Oak, at fuch period of it's Being — Nay 

 were fuch plants on whom the inheritance 

 of the foil, is at length to be entailed for 

 life, miraculoafly to ftand ftill (as the fun 

 did for JoJJma ) during the exiftence of their 

 ejedled brethren^ and that their vital courfe 

 was not to be fhorten'd thereby : That 

 would not ferve turn j for in the mearr 

 time, the congenial vegetative fpirit of^^die 

 earth, with irreparable profufion would-be 

 exhaufted, and the fame cannot be too much 

 laid to heart* What other is the occafioii 

 that timber in old woods is not ordinarily^' 

 fo large as thofe in paftures ? but that in the 

 latter there are not fo many fubterranean 

 robbers — To come yet, if poffible, nearer- 

 the cafe : If there is no account to be made 

 of the congenial vegetative fpirit of the earth 

 being immoderately exhaufted thereby : Then 

 all our moft judicious gardiners are reprove- 

 able for taking out a good quantity of earth 

 in gardens or orchards, where an old tree 

 has died, or even a young one that has been 

 of any continuance there 5 to recruit as they 

 properly call it, the fame v/ith virgin, or 

 untry'd Earth ; before they put a new ono 

 therein, efpecially of the fame fpecies — • 

 And if the bodies of trees are not the more 

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