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tree, soil, Gfc. and not to shade overmuch the roots 

 of those stems we desire should mount, Gfc. That 

 in transplanting trees we turn the best and largest 

 roots towards the south, and consequently the most 

 ample and spreading part of the head correspondent 

 to the roots : For if there be a strong root on that 

 quarter, and but a feeble attraction in the branches, 

 this may not always counterpoise the weak roots on 

 the north-side, damnified by the too puissant attract- 

 ion of over large branches : This may also suggest a 

 cause why trees flourish more on the south-side, and 

 have their integument and coats thicker on those 

 aspects annually, with divers other useful speculations, 

 if in the mean time, they seem not rather to be pun- 

 til los over nice for a plain forester. Let the curious 

 further consult Philos. Transactions, numb. 43, 44, 46, 

 48, 57, 58, 68, 70, 71. for farther instances and tryals, 

 upon this subject of sap. And that excellent treatise of 

 Hen. Meibomius. De Cervisiis Potibusque; & Ebriamini- 

 bus extra Vinum, annext to Turnebus de Vino^ &c. 

 Where he shews how, and by whom, (after the first 

 use of water and milk) were introduc'd the drinks 

 made from vegetables, vines, corn, and other fruits 

 and juices tapp'd out of trees, Gfc. 



7. To shew our reader yet, that these are no novel 

 experiments, we are to know, that a large tract of 

 the world, almost altogether subsists on these treen 

 liquors ; especially that of the date, which being 

 grown to about seven or eight foot in height, they 

 wound, as we have taught, for the sap, which they 

 call toddy, a very famous drink in the East-Indies. 

 This tree increasing every year about a foot, near the 

 opposite part of the first incisure, they pierce again, 

 changing the receiver ; and so still by opposite 



