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number of Oaks propos'd on an acre might 

 be reduc'd, to give the fame more influence 

 of the heavens — More fpecies both of kind- 

 ly, or unkindly foils for woods might like- 

 wife have been mentioned : But I have de- 

 clined enlarging thereon, as in a good mea- 

 fure the fame has been treated of, by every 

 lylvatick v^riter this laft century 5 from 

 whom may be further coUeded, what are 

 proper for the Oak, and what are not : 

 Yet even the late Mr. Switzer, among the 

 reft, contrary to his own pradtice in other 

 cafes, has inadvertently omitted, or at beft 

 been too fparing, in giving reafons for the 

 propriety, or impropriety of either, or to 

 ufe his own word, in other cafes — Why. 



Once more in reference to an over- 

 numerous plant of Oaks in refpedl to their 

 propinquity' to each other 5 and therewith, 

 to conclude this head, and all preceding ar- 

 guments thereupon : Were I to take upon 

 me to be magifterial herein ^ it fhould be to 

 enforce thereto, the application of xht Roman 

 proverb, 'viz, that the mediety is more (in 

 the end) than the whole. 



