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growing without being at all pruned or lopped ; the event 
was expeded. 
The fuccefs was found to be thus A in the following 
Years fliot out many Twigs round about, but the Body 
increafed but little in heighth or bignels. B fhot out like- 
wife many Twigs where it had been pruned, and the top- 
branches and top alfo mcreafed confiderably, and the Bo- 
dy alio increafed much more in heighth and bignefs than 
did the former A. C increafed yet much more in all its 
parts than B. But D increafed in Limbs, Heighth, and 
Bignefs moft of all; fweihng in bignefs, and flretching in 
heighth and fpreading in its Boughs much more than C; 
and in about i o Years, was more than four times as bigg 
as J. 
The fame worthy Perfon alfb obferved,that all the Poplars 
that had been pruned, dyed in the great Froft 1684 ; in fb 
much, that of 25 that were fo ordered, he obferved 19 of 
them to be killed by it, and the remaining to be very 
weak and hardly able to recover, and increafed very little 
in the following Years. Thefe Poplars were about 3a 
Foot high, and had only a fmall Head left at the top un- 
loped^of about 4 or 5 Foot, and were pruned, the Spring 
before the great Froft. He obferved alfb, that divers of 
thofe which had been pruned two Summers before the 
Froft, were killed by it : But none of thofe Vvhich had 
not been pruned at all, were hurt by it. He took Notice 
alfb, both in L::mcajh/re 3.ndCheJhirey tliat Trees of 60 Foot 
in hightb, that had been pruned, and had only a fmall 
Top left, were alfo killed by the faid Froft ; whereas 
thofe Trees of the fame Kind and Heighth, which ftood 
near to them, but had not been pruned, continued to 
flourifh, and fuffered no harm thereby. Several of thofe 
Branches of about an Inch Diameter,, and Trees that had 
been barked round, as above, the Spring before the great 
Froft, out lived the violence of the fame, and the prsece- 
ding Winter. 
Where 
