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tinued green, within 8 or 10 days, as long 
as the leaves on the other branches of the 
fame tree. 
The fame day, viz. Auguft 15 th, I cut 
two fuch oppofitc gaps 4 inches diftant, in 
an horizontal young thriving Oak-branch ; 
it was I inch diameter, 1 8 days after many 
of the leaves begun to turn yellow, which 
none of the leaves of other boughs did then. 
The fame day I cut off the bark for one 
inch length, quite round a like branch of the 
fame Oak 5 1 8 days after the leaves were as 
green as any on the fame tree j but the leaves 
fell off this and the foregoing branch early 
in the winter 5 yet continued on all the reft 
of the boughs of the tree ( except the top 
ones) all the winter. 
The fame day I cut four fuch gaps, 2 in- 
ches wide, and 9 inches diftant from each 
other, in the upright arm of a Golden-Re- 
nate tree\ the diameter of the branch was 
2 -\- i inch, the gaps faced the 4 cardinal 
points of the compafs^ the apples and leaves 
on this branch flourifhed as well as thofe 
on other branches of the fame tree. 
Here again we fee the very free lateral 
paflTage 
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