carefully covered with fome foft wax (f& is Known) to defend ir 
from the rain. It is to be ftopp'd, and orderM in all things, as in 
other Inoculations. 
To the 17th. The arms of the roots of trees are to be cut for 
the advantage of their growth, according to the proportion they 
have to their Head and Body $ or according to the deiign you 
have to encreafe Wood or Fruit. For fuch roots as are more out- 
ward,feed Wood, fuch as are inward, the Fruit -> as is above fup- 
pofed. 
totheiBth. The Depth of Trees to be fet, fhould never be 
below the reach of the Suns heat, nor the goodnefs of the mouldy 
and rather too fliallow than toodeep forafmuch as they are ap- 
ter to fink lower., than to raife themfelves upwards, if they be 
out of the convenient reach of the Suns heat, the caufeof pul- 
fion and nourifhment. 
To the i$th. The Seeds of the Firr> Pine, &c. which bring up 
the (hells of their feeds upon the heads of the firft fhoot^ will- 
either not grow at all, or difficultly, if the blunt end be put down- 
wards, becaufe in that pofturek muft turn it felf, before it can 
emerge into the air •> for the root is fliot downwards at the jharp 
end. But it may very well grow, if fet Horizontally. 
To the 20th, Such Trees, as were mentioned formerly in the 
Anfaer to the firft £>&erie^ may grow, though no part of the Root 
be in the earth. And all fuch, as may be propagated by (hort 
flicks, cut off at both ends, and laid in the ground, as Mulberries* 
will do fo. Some young plants, if their heads be kept moift, 
will live all Winter, if mild, though their roots be in the air, as 
I tryed in Seedlings of Apples and Crabs. Their roots, fet af- 
terwards in the Spring, grew and lived. The reafon why fome 
Plants grow in flicks, may be the foftnefs of fuch wood, apt 
thereby to receive nourifhment like a root, and to ftioot out 
roots and fibres from themfelves. But in fome flips, taken from 
firmer- wooded trees, zs Bayes, a moift temperate feafonis to be 
obferv'd, and fome ftone, or chip of fome wood to be clofed 
to the end of the flip, and fet in the earth with it, which helps 
its rooting. 
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