xeltfh in them? Yet probably hot nourifliments, whether in 
Juyces or Earths, may digeft the Sap, and confequently the Fruit 
better in Trees of flaihy Fruit, than in others^ and vice verja. In 
the mean time to change the Tafieoi Fruit, the probableft way 
maybe, though not \rery hopeful,' to:boie*the Roots and the 
Body downwards and tranfverfe, and to fill the holes with plenty 
of its own or fome other Tree's Sap 3 in which fome Aromatick 
fubftances have been ftrongly infuf 'd, 
Tetheiyh. tfnd rain come to the roots of trees at all, nor 
other moifture, they will not grow 5 but if the points of the roots 
only be water'd,though all the reft remain dry (as it happens na- 
turally in Ftrre-trees*) they may grow very well. For the points 
of the roots flioot out yearly a (harp-pointed tender pai r, fome- 
whatlike the fliarp budon the endofafprig, by which the root 
not only enlarges it felf in the earthy as the Branch does in the 
air, but alfo receives its nourifliment. And that tender part moves 
its felt towards the beft-moiftned and the tendered earth : So that 
to promote the growth of trees, 'tis very eflfe&ual to loofen the 
earth of trees about the points of the roots 5 and there alfo 
to minifter noiirifhment or proper liquors 5 and this in trenches, 
where the amendment may remain, rather than above 5 throw- 
ing out the dead mould out of the trenches, and fpreading it a- 
bove to kill weeds. 
To the 1 6th. The roots of Plttm-and Lime-trees inoculated up- 
on, will flioot out their buds, as I have experimented. I failed 
of fuccefs in the Walmt, in regard, I think, I had not well pro- 
vided for what was neeeffary to keep the part inoculated from 
the moifture of the earth and rain. To make a fuccefsful tryal, 
fuppofe in an Alkermes-Oak (a delicate tree, and difficult to be 
otherwife inoculated upon 5) Let the root, to be grafted on, be 
bared in the fall of the leaf, taken out of the earth, and at con- 
venient diftance from the Body of the tree, bow'd, and raifed z 
foot above the earth, and then the points and fibres of the root 
carefully laid about with frefli earth, and water'd till they take 
well, and till the root raifd in the air have a bark like that of 
a branch of a tree-, which probably it will get in the nextfea* 
fon of Inoculation. The Inoculation it felf is made on the 
part raifed, after the ordinary way. When 'tis done, let it be 
carefully 
