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beginning of winter are very liable to 

 break out ; they then suffer nriucli from the 

 frost. When I have cut down sycamores 

 in August, of about twenty years growth, 

 I have known them make this unnatural 

 effort to relieve their roots from suffocation; 

 and I have observed the leaves on the 

 shoots which they have then thrown out 

 green to the middle of the succeeding 

 January. Plants which do not ripen 

 their wood, and which are annually killed 

 in parts by frost, such as fuchsias, verbenas, 

 &c., should not be cut till the frost does 

 come ; they should then be cut immediately. 

 This not only gives the last chance for 

 the ripening of the roots, but if the plants 

 are cut earlier they are very liable to 

 break out, and then suffer from frost. 



I do not believe that the sap ever ceases 

 to circulate ; but the tide is perhaps at 

 its lowest ebb in January, and that is 

 possibly the best month for felling timber. 

 Timber which is felled at the high tide of 



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