the Soil is of, where fuch Trees are planted, that (hall ei- 
ther bleed , or refufe to do fo : 
if ofbothwhichjfeethis Oh- whether Sandy, as that of Notttn- 
fevers Experiments former. ; ^ ^^^ ^^^^ 
ly communicated, m Ob, e> ^ y » 
|;Uo<57,i^^o8. the two Trees, 1 have obf'^rved 
here at Tork^ ^ 
Concerning the Bleeding of the S)'camore^hQ pleafed 
that I acquaint you with the following Experiment of ve- 
ry late date. The firft inftant it froze^ the wind at North ^ 
the Froft and VVind continued (fome little Snow now and 
then falling Jthe 2d33d,4th55th36th,until the 7th in the mor^ 
ning, when the wind came about to the South-Eaft, and 
the weather broke up a pace, the Sycamores bled not all 
this while ^ but the feventh about noon , all Trees of that 
kindebled very freely both at the Twigs and Body, and 
I ftruck above a dozen. 
At this fame Critical ieafon, I was willing to repeat the 
Experiment upon other Trees, and to this end I forthwith 
ftruck the Haw4horn^ Hazel ^ Wild'-Rofe^ Goofeherry-BHjh^ 
Jpple Tree^ Cherry-Tree^ Blather^Nnt, jipricoek^ Cherry-law^ 
ret, Vine^ Wal nut 5 yet none bled but the laftnam'd, and 
that but f^iintly in comparilbn of the Sycamore^, This is 
confonant to our former Experiments : And if it did hap^ 
^ ^ ^„ pen* as I faid in one of my former 
^ Letters^, that thefe Sycamores 
hied not all thi^ Winter afore at the wounds made the firft 
of November ^ \ do now think 3 that if new wounds had 
been flill made at every breach of Froft, fome fignes at 
leaft of our Torkrjhire bleeding "^, 
^:'J^^}^tgTo^nd.iorxh:^s^i. might have been difcovered be* 
<58.p,2od7,2oe 8, tore now : out 1 amrm no more 
than I have feen and tried* 
Inallirhe Monuments of the Ancients, colleftedby the 
great induftry of Pliny ^ I finde but few inftances of this 
nature. Amoogftthofe few there is one, that is regiftred 
with two or three remarkable circumftances toour pur* 
j)ofe. He telU us^ that the f ^jjiV/^^:^/ of oldj when they had 
a mind 
