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An Experiment 
Of making Cherry-Trees , that hav£ mthered 
fruit , to bear full and good fruity and of 
Recovering the almojl mthered fruit. 
Commumcdtedby the fame , ds follows 
ANn9 166% y I made the following Experiment with 3 Maj^ 
chmj'Trecs (planted in a rich Mould) which lay to a 
South- wall , (haded 4 Winter- Moneths from the Sun by 
a high Buildings fo that the Sun came not on them, till the be- 
ginning of Mard , when being high ^ and fhlning fomewhat fierce- 
ly upon them , the fruit conftantly withered for fome years be- 
fore. Now this year, the feafon being very hot and dry , I bared 
the roots of o^e of them;, by making a hole about it , and watered 
it every Morning and Evening with about z Gallon oi water, for 
about a fortnight before the Cherries came to rednefs, and the 
fruit was full and good. The other two Trees 5 left without this 
ordering, had moft of their fruit withered , having onely skin and 
ftones. Now to try this Experiment farther, I made a hole round 
about oneoi the other Trees , and fed it with water daily ^ as the 
former : In a W eeks time , thofe that were quite withered, fell off, 
and the reft , -that were notfo, grew and increafed exceedingly- 
the otkr Treq, that was not ufed after this manner 3 had not any 
of its fruit come to perfeftion^ 
Jn Experiment 
On Aloe Americana Serrati-foHa mighed-^ 
feeming to import a Circulation of the Sappe 
in Plants , bj/ the fame Dr. Merret* 
AUgufi J^. this jilocs weighed 21 Onnces ^ SDrdmsl 
2 Grains. Its colour was of a pale-green , confifting of 11 
Leaves ^ it was bound about with a red dry Cloth ^ andwaihung 
up without Oil, as is ufual^ in the Kitchin, 
