I could not tell what tree to call it that these stakes were cut from. I was surprised, and yet very well pleased, to see the young trees grow; and I pruned them, and led them up to grow as much alike as I could; and it is scarce credible how beautiful a figure they grew into in three years; so that though the hedge made a circle of about twenty-five yards in diameter, yet the trees, for such I might now call them, soon covered it, and it was a complete shade, sufficient to lodge under all the dry season.
Sorprendido y complacido de ver aquellos retoños, los podé para que crecieran tan uniformemente como fuese posible y resulta casi increíble que en tres años crecieran tan maravillosamente, de forma que, si la empalizada formaba un círculo de casi veinticinco yardas de diámetro, los árboles -que así podía llamarlos- la cubrieron completamente, dando suficiente sombra como para refugiarme durante toda la estación seca.