Note 41 — PART IV. NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER.

The inferior growth of the part of a hedge which was pruned before the vegetation had begun, may be ascribed to the vital action having been checked at the commencement by the destruction of the buds necessary to stimulate this action; and being deprived of this first strong impulse, life had remained languid throughout the season, the roots never recovering their proper suction or foraging power;—when the pruning was later, a sufficient stimulus had already been given.