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Yet the prototypes thereof now alluded 

 to, are not to young promifing Oaks j which 

 nature of her felf had fo kindly formed, as 

 to need little, or no reformation, *viz, fuch 

 feledt plants, as either the happy foil they 

 grew in — 'Or an overgreat attendance upon 

 them — Or a feries of favouring feafons — 

 Or their inbred uncommon excellence from 

 an acorn, had unitedly rendered facil there- 

 to-^ 



But the references are to perverted 

 precedents to fuch an end y and fuch as art 

 could not have been more judicioufly em- 

 ployed, to render them averfe to any kind 

 of difcipline ; fo as ever to be transformed 

 into a capacity of afpiring with one eredt 

 head only, any more. In the firfl: place 

 they were tranfplanted fome miles diftant, 

 out of a wood 5 and what mofl: planters make 

 great account of, in an Oak 5 their tap- 

 roots cut off. 



Nor on removal were refet, in a better 

 than an ordinary wood foil : And being a.t 

 firft delign'd for young pollards, their upper- 

 ^oft parts were cut with fo7^kt beads their 



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