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which is, they never fhoot from the ftool fo as to 
make any confiderable progrefs. 
As to the 2d — A tree, or particular wood, may 
grow very kindly in a coppice, and yet in procefs 
of time, by the continual felling of the wood, may 
be entirely worn out, when other forts, which bear 
the woodman’s cutting-bill more kindly, will increafe, 
and overrun the former, fo as to fill every vacancy 
made by it. Befides, there are fome kinds of wood 
which are poifoned, and in time decay by the near 
affinity of others. The afli is a particular infiance 
of this poifonous quality towards other trees. 
As to the 3d rule of feeds ripening kindly j I 
mufi difagree in this too, as I find very few, if any, 
whether indigenous or not, whofe feeds do not ripen 
here fufiicient to continue the tree eafily ; and where 
it is not in profufion, the indigenous tree will be 
found as deficient as fome others, which are known 
to be otherwife. 
Mr. B’s lafi rule, of places taking their name from 
indigenous trees which grow there, may ferve as 
well to prove all trees whatfoever fo : there being 
but few trees which have grown in Britain, but our 
very ingenious etymologifis have derived the names 
of fome places from them. — Singular infiances, I 
own, I do not recolleft. 
All kinds of things in general adopt the name of 
that country where they grow, or are made in the 
greateft perfection. — Infiances of this are obvious in 
every neceflary of life. The chefnut, whofe fruit 
ripens in Spain in much more perfedtion than in 
this variable and colder climate, has gained the addi- 
tional name of Spanifii to it, among the merchants 
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