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rienced a degree of fuccefs that exceeded my moft fanguine 

 expectations. 



As I feel a ftrong folicitude to render my experiments of 

 the moft extenfive advantage to the community, and in par- 

 ticular to the proprietors of landed eft ate s throughout the 

 kingdom, I beg leave to recommend to their particular atten- 

 tion, that all foreft trees, whether felled with a faw or an 

 axe, may be cut near to the ground ; at the fame time care- 

 fully preferving the ftump and roots from any further injury. 

 The furface fhould then be made quite fmooth when the Com- 

 pofition may be fpread over the whole furface according to 

 the directions already given. It fhould, however, be oh- 

 ferved, that the Compofition, when employed for this parti- 

 cular purpofe, fhould have an equal quantity of the powder 

 of alabafter mixed with the dry powder generally directed to be 

 ufed after the Compofition is laid on, in order to render the 

 furface harder, and of courfe ^better able to refill the bad 

 effects of the dripping of trees, of rain, froft, and fnow. But 

 this addition is by no means necefTary in the ufual applica- 

 tion to the fides of trees. 



In confequence of this procefs, the vigour of the roots will 

 operate fo powerfully in the courfe of the fucceeding Spring, 

 that a confiderable number of buds or branches will fhoot 

 forth round the ftump, which, with proper care and atten- 

 tion, may be trained to many valuable purpofes, either 

 ftraight or crooked, for knee-timber, or other ufes : and, by 

 retaining only fo many of thefe fhoots as are defigned to grow 

 for any particular intention, more than one half will be. 

 faved, in point of time, according to the proportions of com- 

 mon growth : for if a young tree be planted in a foil equal 

 in quality to the fite of the old ftump, the fhoot growing 



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