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right up fplre, having at the fame time been 

 clean cut off : And confequently, all tho 

 ere6l velTels therein, for ever deftroy'd there-* 

 by : Inftead of which three, or four hori- 

 zontal, or fide boughs, about a foot long 

 each, were left on either head y after the 

 manner of young pollards, which are de- 

 fign'd only for firewood, in the future growth 

 of their heads. 



My mind altering therefrom, on having 

 had fo great fuccefs, on Oaks, (I may call) 

 not deform'd to thofe ends 5 I determined 

 after they had grown in that fafhion two 

 years, to make experiment, whether it were 

 poflible, to caufe the fame plants to rife in a^ 

 eredl fingle fpire again. 



To pufli on my fortune ; an eflay of the 

 like fort was at the fame time made upon 

 half a dozen young Oaks, whofe heads, not 

 before fenc'd therefrom, were many years 

 fuccefiively brows'd off, by cattle : In nei- 

 ther of which however not one fingle miC- 

 carriage happen'd ; no more than in the 

 tranfplanted Oaks, which were half a fcore : 

 Either inhibition to fuch purpofes being 

 the greateft poflible, and are precedents 



never. 



