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to fhew to any gentleman who wifhes to be convinced of th 

 fa£t. An old Elm whofe infide was totally decayed, and out 

 of which, at different times, were taken two large cart loads 

 of rotten wood, has made (hoots upwards of twenty feet high 

 in the courfe of fix years. Another Elm, on the Palace green, 

 which was headed about twenty feet from the ground, has 

 produced a fhoot forty-fix feet high, and five feet nine inches 

 in circumference. A Lime, cut down near the ground, has 

 now a fhoot twenty feet high which entirely covers the ftump, 

 forming a fine tree twenty-one inches in circumference. A 

 Sycamore treated in the fame manner is now thirty feet high r 

 and twenty-fix inches in circumference. Another is thirty 

 feet high, and two feet in circumference, Thefe are now 

 fine thriving trees, and the cicatrices hardly difcernible. 



A Horfe-Chefnut headed down has produced, from its 

 hollow ftump, four fine {hoots, one of which is cut down ; 

 the other three are upwards of thirty feet high, and one of 

 them is twenty-fix inches in circumference. Two of the 

 remaining three are to be cut down, leaving only one to form 

 the body of the tree. A Lime, whofe hollow part is eleven 

 feet high, is alfo filling up ; the tree is a foot m diameter. A 

 decayed part, four feet high and twenty-eight inches broad, 

 in a large Elm, is now filling up rapidly with found wood. 

 About two feet and a half in length on one fide, which was 

 for fome time left to nature, ftill continued to decay till the 

 Composition was applied : new wood and bark are now 

 forming. An Elm, at the back of the old fruit-room, near 

 the garden wall, which was entirely hollow, was alfo headed 

 down : the new head now fpreads about twenty-four feet, 

 and is eighteen feet high. Another large hollow Elm near 

 the laft was headed down 5 it afterwards produced a fhoot 



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