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The second was on the viburnum, with the top planted in the ground, 

 which is become roots ; and the roots turned up, which are become branches. 

 But whether the same vessels, which fed the branches, have changed their 

 course, or whether the juices go up and down in the same vessels, he leaves 

 undetermined ; but the plant was in as good state of growing, as in its 

 natural state. 



The third experiment was on a pear-tree, which he enarched on two pear- 

 stocks, in March 1721-2, which was in a good flourishing state, with a branch 

 in blossom, and receives no nourishment but by the two enarched branches, 

 the root being out of the ground; and though it was done above 2 years since, 

 it is now shooting suckers out of the root; which proves that the branches 

 are as useful to support the roots, as the roots the branches ; and it is there- 

 fore no wonder that so many trees miscarry in planting, when there are no 

 branches left on the head. 



The fourth experiment was on the cedar of Libanus, grafted on the laryx, 

 which drops its leaves in the winter; yet maintains the cedar in as flourishing 

 condition, as if it had been on a tree that held the leaves all the winter; 

 and the part of the graft, left below the grafting, is in as good health as the 

 part above it. 



Of an extraordinarij Cure by Siueating in Hot Turf; with a Description of the 

 Indian Hot-Houses. By the Hon. Paul Dudley, F.R.S. N°384, p. \1Q. 



In the year 1/04, Peter Coflftn, Esq. of Exeter, in New England, being 

 then 74 years of age, had taken a great surfeit, as it was thought, by drinking 

 cold water in a very hot day, after having heated himself in the woods. It 

 settled principally in his right side, but gave him a racking pain all over his 

 body, and particularly deprived him of the use of his right arm: in this condi- 

 tion he kept his house and bed for Q weeks, and his recovery, considering his 

 age, was despaired of; when a son of his making a visit to his father, proposed 

 the sweating of him in turf: the father readily agreed to it, having used many 

 medicines without any effect. Immediately orders were given to cut a large 

 oven full of turf, the pieces might be about 18 inches square. The turf itself 

 was of English grass, and only the sward, or top of the earth, with the grass. 

 Before the turf was put into the oven, the doctor rubbed the grassy side of the 

 turf, with some spirit, or oil, and then doubled the grass-sides together, and 

 so set them in. When they were well baked, which was in about 2 hours, he 

 took them out, and made a bed of them on the floor, the place for the head 

 raised; as soon as that was done, he ordered his father to be taken out of his 

 bed without his shirt, but wrapped up in a sheet, and laid upon the hot turf. 



