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Nor will this appeat{fo extraordinary, when nearly examined, as it may feem at firft fight. The fhoots of the laburnum, as well as of many other trees, are as tender while young, and as entirely herbaceous, as thofe of clover, or any other of the moft {ucculent graffes; and if thefe twigs were cut while in that{tate, they might perhaps affordas nourifhing hay as clover or lucerne.

The Lucerne plant, which affords, be-~

yond any degree of comparifon, the moft

valuable hay that we moderns are ac- quainted with, if fuffered to run to their full length for a whole feafon, are more frm and woody than the fhoots of the Laburnum at the.end of the feafon.

It is well known, that almoft all forts of deciduous trees, when cut over clofe by the ground, fend out{trong and nume- rous fhoots, which quickly attain a much greater magnitude than if the tree had been fuffered to grow in its ordinary man- ner. The fhoots of a willow managed in this way, will often exceed nine feet ina feafon, which would not have been above two or three if the ftem had not. been lately cut over.

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