fan;) 
night ^ did, both they and others, new cut down by the Fire- 
fide^freely (hew moifture and bleed this morning upon the 
breaking up of the Froft, 
AjJ?.foles and ^r^i/?i:^/ this day, nor yefterday^would by the 
Fire be no more moiftj than when I formerly tried them. 
The fame morning March sgthj a Twig oiMaple^ which had 
had the top cut off the 7th of February laft part , and which 
then bled, this day being quite taken off from the Tree^ and 
brought within the Air of the Fire, and held with the formerly 
cut-end downwards, did not run at all at the end^ but held on 
in that pofture, it did run apace at the other new cut end up« 
permoft, fo as to fpring and trickle down. 
Note, That this doth well agree with my Experiments made 
the laft year at Nottingham, where I obferv'd wounds of fome 
months ftanding to bleed apace at the breaking up of every 
hard Froft. For firfl^m thefe parts there hath been no hard Froft 
this yearjnot comparable to the laft year- Again^ thofe Notti^g* 
ham-trees I wounded in the Trunk , and they flood againfta 
Brickwall, and the wounds wereoo the fide next it 3 and be- 
fides had Horfe-dung ftopp d in all of them for fome reafons , 
which things did undoubtedly defend them much from the Air 
and Windsjand keep the wounds ftill greeo and open : Wher- 
as the tops of thefe Maple- txviggsy fpoken of in the laft Experi^ 
ment, were expos'd in an open hedge to the Air and Winds 5 as 
alfo the XMNo Sycamores here at Tork^ mentioned in my formerLeu 
ter to have been wounded in AVz/e«?^er laftj and not to have 
(hew'd any fignes of moifture y for that very caufe j that they 
were not frefli ftruck at Bleeding times* 
Concerning the Bleeding of Poles and entire Branches held 
perpendicular, Mr. Willoughby is in the right, and fome Experi- 
mentsin my laft to you o( March 17th confirm it. Yet it is 
very true what 1 obferv'd,though the Caufe I did not then well 
take notice of, when ^firft made the Experiment and fent you 
an accomptof it. For, 1 held the Twigs, which I had cutoff, 
a^lope^ joyning and holding up the cuts together in my left 
hand, that I might the better obferve, which part or cut would 
bleed or not bleed the fafter 5 and becaufe I found^that the cut 
oftheftparated Twig did not in that pofture (holdingit up- 
wards, as I faid, for the advantage of my eye)b!eed at all^when 
as theCut of the Branch remaining to theXrec did freely bleed^ 
Yy I 
