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attacking the tougher and solider parts of vegetables : 

 To those learned persons above, we may not forget 

 the late worthy and pious Mr. Ray, where in the 

 second part of his treatise, of the Wisdom of God in 

 the Creation, we have a brief, but ingenious account 

 of what concerns this subject, together with what is 

 added about spontaneous productions of these despic- 

 able animals, to which I refer the curious. 



Trees (especially fruit-bearers) are infested with the 

 measels, by being burned and scorched with the sun 

 in great drougths : To this commonly succeeds lousi- 

 ness, which iscur'd by boring an hole into the principal 

 root, and pouring in a quantity of brandy, stopping 

 the orifice up with a pin of the same wood. ) 



Crooked trees are reform'd by taking off or topping 

 the prasponderers, whilst charg'd with leaves, or woody 

 and hanging counterpoises. 



Excorticated and bark-bared trees, may be preserved 

 by nourishing up a shoot from the foot, or below the 

 stripped place, and inserting it into a slit above the 

 wounded part ; to be done in the Spring, and secur'd 

 from air, as you treat a graff : This I have out of the 

 very industrious Mr. Cook, p. 48. But Dr. Merret 

 brought us in this relation to the Royal Society, 

 that making a square section of the rinds of ash, and 

 sycomore (March 1664,) whereof three sides were 

 cut, and one not, the success was, that the whole 

 bark did unite, being bound with pack-thread, leaving 

 only a scar : But being separated intirely from the 

 tree, namely several parts of the bark, and at various 

 depths, leaving on some part of the bark, others cut 

 to the very wood it self, being tied on as the former, 

 a new rind succeeded in their place ; but what was 

 cover'd over beyond the places of incision with 



