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,’iooK 111,.those of the collateral you may shorten, stripping up the rest close to the. stem; and such as you do spare, let them not be the most opposite, but

rather one above another, to preserve the part from swelling and hinder,ing its taper growth: Be careful also to keep your trees from being,top-heavy, by shortening the side-branches competently near the stem.-—Young plants, nipt either by the frost or teeth of cattle, do commonlybreak on the sides, which impedes both growth and spiringIn thiscase, prune off some, and quicken the leading shoot with your knife atsome distance heneath its infirmity : but if it be in a very unlikely con-dition at spring, cut off all close to the very ground, and hope for a newshoot, continually supprefsing whatever else may accompany it, by cuttingthem away in summer.

Walnut, Ash, and pithy trees are safer pruned in summer and warm,weather than in the spring, whatever the vulgar fancy.

I will conclude with the technical names, or difsimilar parts of trees.,as I find them enumerated by the industrious and learned Dr.-Merett rScapus, Truncus, Cortex, Liher, Malicorium, Matrix, Medulla et Cor,Pecten, Circuli, Surculi, Rami, Sarmenta, Ramusculi, Spadix, Vi men,Virgultum et Cremium, Vitilia, Talea, Scobs,Termes, Turiones, Frondes,Cachrys et Nucamentum, Julus et Catulus, Coma : r To which addAlburnum, Capitulum, Cima, Echinus, Geniculum, Pericarpium,Petiolus::The Species, Frutex, Suffrutex, &c.; all which I leave to be put into goodand proper English (as our learned Phytologist Mr. Ray has- done) bythose who shall once oblige our nation with a full and absolutelycomplete Dictionary, as yet a desiderate amongst us; however of late,infinitely improved 1 .

ij n the year 1731, Mr. Philip Miller published the first edition of his Gardeners ^Diftionary. It has gone through nine editions, and is a work of considerable merit.2d Edit, in 1733.—3d Edit, in 1738-.—4th Edit, in 1740.—5th Edit, in 17.43.— 6th Edit,in 1752.—7th Edit, in 1759.—8th Edit, in 1768.—and 9th Edit, in 1798, with alterationsand improvements, by Mr. Martin, Profefsor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. —In the year 1764, Dr. Berkenhout published his Clavis Anglica Linguas Botanic® ; and in1770, Mr. C. Milne favoured the Botanical Studept with anexcellent Botanical Dictionary,io which a Supplement was added in 1778,