Hry 5 andinfome Trees s?ougb. The inner, is probably a fuper- 
added new Coat of that years growth, or fomethiag like it, be- 
tween the nature of Wood and Bark. The fap rifes within and 
without that fuper added Coat. 
From hence it may be more carefully inquired than hath been 
hitherto done. i. Whether the more Circles there be in any 
Branch, the longer the Sap will afcend into it i 2. Whether 
the fewer Circles there are in it,the fooner the Sap fubfides from 
it? 3. Whether a Branch (fuppofc) of three Circles, cut at 
Springs the fap afcending, or another of the fame bignefs* will 
at Mtchaelmas following, if cut again, be found to have increafed 
one or more Circles than it had in the Spring.- and whether at 
Spring or Fall, or at other feafon, it be found to have a Circle 
or half a Circle of Pricks next or betwixt the Barks, or a Circle 
of Wood next the inner Bark onely, or both > But here the 
Comparifon is to be made with diftin&ion. For it muft be in- 
quired, Whether fome Trees (hoot new Tops every year until 
a certain Age, and after not ? Whether fome have the Cir- 
cles in their Branches decreafed from their Body to the extre- 
mity of the Branch infuch order, that (e.g. ) an Apple-tree- 
flioot of this year hath one Circle of Pricks or Wood placd in 
the Graft of two years o}d, and that of two years growth will 
the next year have one Circle more then it had the year before i 
And whether this onely be till the B anch fhoot no more Grafts, 
and whether then the uttermoft Twig get any new Circles, or 
ftandataftay, being nourifh'd onely, not augmented in bulk as 
to theappearance of the Circles ? And whether an Augmen- 
tation be between every Coat, or upon the outward Coat one!y i 
Here it ought^lfo to be enquired, Whether the Circles of pricks 
doencreafe till Mid[ummtr, and the Circles otmod from after 
Midfummer till next Spring & 
Further, to perfect the experiment about Sap, and to find, 
Whether it afcends more or lefs in the prickt Circles of the Bo- 
dy, than in thofe betwixt the Body and the Bark lathe Tree 
befirft pierced with an Auger onely through the#4r£, and the 
quantity of S^p ic yields in an hour,ex3&ly meafm'd and weight- 
Then at the fame time let another hole be bored into the Body 
of the Tre * above an inch and an half deep, and fo round about 
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