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Other medicinal herbs in such thin rye paste, till they be very dry, you may 

 expect a very wholesome drink. If you put a few cloves in every glass, into 

 which the sap runs from the tree, it will keep twelve months. 



Spirit of wine ferments the juice of some berries, and possibly may not only 

 preserve, but heighten the virtue of saps ; a little being poured on the top of 

 ' them in the bottles, or some other oily spirit. 



A certain lady ferments it with rye-toast, not put in, but only hung over 

 it, in such quantity and at such distance, as may give some light warmth, mo- 

 tion, and alteration to the surface of the liquor. 



I fermented some with ale-barm, [yest] which converted my delicate birch- 

 juice, kept in bottles, into poor small beer. 



Honey will not mix with cyder, though boiled therein to make mead ; but 

 after a while the cyder lets fall the honey, and becomes simple cyder again. 



Some affirm, that a decoction of the tops and leaves of birch in the sap will 

 preserve it from souring a whole year ; and that any sort of dried aromatic 

 herbs, as sage, &c. boiled in beer, will keep it as well as hops, ling (heath), 

 broom, or wormwood. And some have used bay-leaves in their beer and ale. 



Fine light French manchet (bread), toasted, may possibly be also good for 

 our saps. 



The Connection of certain Parts of a Tree, with those of tlie Fruit. 

 By Dr. John Beale. N' 46, p. 919- 



I had an excellent summer apple, containing abundance of very pleasant 

 juice. It was of that kind which never grows large. The body by the bur- 

 then of the fruit always wreathed towards the ground ; the branches all curled, 

 and full of knots at every turning ; and these branches apt to grow, if a good 

 knot be set in the ground, as soon as it is cut off, especially about Candlemas. 

 This tree was hollow, and very nearly all the timber extremely rotten, from 

 the top of the stem to the root ; and every sprig, however small, appeared 

 cork-coloured and rotten at the heart of the timber ; and so it was generally 

 all over the roots. Yet the tree bore abundantly, with alternative rests, every 

 second or third year. The fruit had scarce any core ; the kernels were very 

 small, thin and empty, yet the branches from the knots grew well enough to 

 replenish a nursery. This seems to indicate the correspondence between the 

 pithy part, heart or timber, and the seeds. And to confirm this ; a young 

 tree grew like a sucker from the only sound root of the apple tree. This grew 

 straighter than others of the same kind usually do ; of which I conceive the 

 cause to be this: suckers are commonly barren a pretty long time; and this 



