3* Me ,N t t i £ H3 ESCMH I SITK3DK ¥ . I f
iani gte& -flot'f
ihad bem notlgalh madfe • |
| Figure-feenth idpBefibite ®fiK,e;g?fli! rnadegafl? ab®vet«B^te#-
dr>iGfc^iiiid‘i#od|ea?;off
from eaeh other, and.from -Che Body as tefore left
m Rranrkmpmn the 1 ow^SpliatectbifSeSusdiaff willt te'Jtbe'tftate
ihere ofithe nejctYeah, sor in 0 &3«hhe^,^v^he4 'itib pr«b^bie
by the other Eiipecifcents?the lower Splinter « and' feifeHf’iSpbrt
it, wilFlbeifound to har^ grown iandiocrdl|dpgas th^Splfctef|
iathe former Experiment did gbswe]the. gafhy thoi%hngotiuthe
-fame Proportion. .‘
ibcFiguref • eight reprefe^iJbinH ytsttdg IBsjpk^l'teis. r‘£^i %Bl
C. D. alii of equal Ibigneftj'growth^ditpationpahdrfoilpds dear
as cou’d be found; - rhefe were, order'd as fc;«Ufffefertted in the
9th Figure,that is, Jd^ hadall its Bfaikbey/abdiTbpoft bff, B.
had all its Branches pruned off, |but ; it wasleferwithra 'Vigaffheiid
atithe Tpp, C> hadkfRrahefaes cut! about half way y andfthoil
iff the upper haU:kftl^wii^cr,?t).'c-Hla9iiefi: gii<t«drigyi without
being atalL-pCuned bt loppech,t the, tevent was:expelled, Idle fuc-
cgfs was found to peihtey 4 ;. jin tile folltmia&iYean fo«rrtriit.aia*
liy. Twigs: round. about* but the tBody ehcEeufod: feu tililtlfe ia
height or bignefs; B. (hot out likewife manj& Hwjgs^i whbre it
had been pruned , arid the topRranches; andu top' alfb enpreafed
confiderably,. and the .-Body alfo .increafed much more in height
and bignefs than did the former ; 44$© increased much .motfe in
all its parts than B. ■ Butol). increafed in- Ljmbs, height, and
bignefs mod , of all, fwelling in bignefs.and fttetchilig in heighth,
and fpreading in its.Boughs mueh'more than C.: and. in about ten
Years tjtneyb was more than four times as big:as>A.
1 The fariie worthy Pejfon alfo obferved,that. all the Poplars,that
has been prufied died in the Great Froft, 16S4. in fo much that
in 25 that' wfere fo,order'd, henobfery^d -19 to be killed by it,
and remaining to be very. Weak and hardly able to recover,, and
iocreafed.very little in .thej followingYears ;: Thefe Poplars were
about 50 'F.oot high, and hadonlyafmall headjleft at the .Top,
unlopped* of aboutj <yor 5 Foot* and - were pruned the, Spring
before
L A M'C-A S H I
n
that had been pruned, two Sunfmers before^ Frofty were,bib
ledibyit;
hurt bylit; He tbok)notkefffiewife
thatTrees ot;,fbFo^t in He%hf,i^khadfbeeiyrhned4ndfed Only
a ftnall top kfv/were^lfQ-fctt|&%it6^tiaid Ffoftyibwheceas f a f e
Of the” fame kind and heighth which flood .near to theni, arid? Had
jffckefih no harth thereby.
Severafcof thdfe ?3BrineheS;ofdbodft anliuohll^iaipptersp^ and dVeds
that had been. bkke4 roundyasxabove.theSpfingvheiOBe the Great
&9 flyout-lived th§ fltkh^aiue3%nd j g i |g p § M Winter,
y t Wli»e;thffe pEuiungriSadjjb^r^J^uppuTy^^^eoty |o0t
high, the 1 differedce of their $ increafe-.wasCenfible thfeio|lpwirig
Sutr^eii« butfinK^or.S Yeftrs time the^ d i^ r e ^ ^ iPrpdigiousy
the unpruned, TJregs growing federal tiit\esiiggqE tha^cthetothers
that wie-re.pruned,both in Body and Branchesev’n tp Admiration ;
He, ha¥h ofteri;obfe'cved;al;fo; thafwhen tlfe top Branches, wou’d
fhoot out,; and grow two; Foot, or imore, in length, .the’ lowefi
branches wou’d nOt Ihoot above four: iriches-; iand farther, that in
the Branches of th.eB.CQtGh-.Firr, the joints aboverlilielBiipgshark/
ed rohnd: wou’dxigfrga&v; andigrew-mileh biggei' ins three^ thair
they w^u’d imfive Year^ if;the.iaid’Rii%Sitfereariftf.*iUiff, %
nl he fame reafon upon difcourffng ldme Other ^paDticuIaf en-.
qniries:;about the Spreading ahd iindeafe of the Roots-, laffiafed’
that; he Had oSierved n s^ry large. Pianftgfy labbufc itwo, Fodt';aud
half Diameter!* and of aw height propbctiohattyl of kkup
20 Yardsf tj|eilpweifc Bough&of which were aboutt^o Foot above^
the grdahdj dtdr^cead andiflaurifh oiu e^ety ffiemhkey thou^!
it had no Root at alF towards, three quartets of its Situation,ributr
only toward one quarter, into W'Wch^-%^^-ii»Jloote«egfa6iy
anddarge, divers of them; reacfhing above 70, or 8dy Foot?from:
the Body of the Tree ; the Reafdn of which lpreading was occa-
fion’d by its being Planted juft within the fquare Angle of; the
Corner of a deep thick and ftrong Stone Wall, •; wRich' was a
kind-of Banking, tM Warhng^againft,a River that ran by. it ;
this Tree f fay,though it had nouriftiment only from one-Quarter
i m ■ ' of