Nervations of umg,Teafon,vveather^lanc»,)be found thcdiff.rence orcIjmats,LanJ,an(J ScU 
%tionjas'a!foof "Vears forwardlyor late fruitful |0r of years unfruitful/9. Whether the Ob- 
servations ol^dity as wclUs ^Antitj ofi-apby Dittillations after fertrentationj&cmay 
not aUo conduce to the Pro^noftique of the Fruitfulncfs or Barrenncfs of a year, cfpecialiy 
in iVdmts , and fu.h Fruit-Bwarersas yield plenty of i'ap.and by analogy and obicrvaii - 
on from them to others : As f e- g. J whether a fruitful or unfruitfu' year of Haicl or 
f ilbert-Duts may not probably be difcovered by their 5'carlec-bioiroms , n t appealing this 
yfar till now ? { MxrGh ) 10. Whether Ablaqueation f or digging about and barin;; 
the roots of Tices ) v/ill retard the rihng of 5ap in the Walnut (27"^. and what other cflF.ft 
itwillhaveon fruit, &c ? And whether fuch Baring of Roots of Pear, Plum and Cherry- 
trees (" which are as much forwarder than Apples, a$ Maples are than Birch (iT'f.J and 
generally of all forwarder Trces,fliould not be made in different feafonsf accordingly )from 
Mulberries and fuch liki ? 11. Whether AntlenJment of ground , hid after the Sap cea- 
feth , be not fruitlefs as to that year, or much Icfs beneficial than what islayd before t iz 
?yhether xht feafonablcnefs of watering may not be found and promoted by a right In- 
quiry j and by aduefatirfadfon tothefe Queries ? ig. Whether Ablaqucation , wate- 
ring,. Amendmentj&c, according to thefe feafuns , may not be fo dircfted , as to cn- 
creafe Fruit, Wood^os bothjor either at pleafure ? 14. Whether Abbqueation , which fo 
alters the rifing of Sap 5 th.it it curdles them , when it ftiould run, dothinot hurt ? 15, 
Whether the ia«ie hath influx on the Lraves , Suckers and outward produds of the Tree, 
or on the inward alfo, asfiuit; or only increafes their quantity , by accident hindrrng the 
growth and draught of other parts which did robb the fruit ? x6. Whether the Cool fca- 
fons of the Night afford not fomc temperament in thefe cafes , fo that thereby, as \u in cool 
feafons , the Sap runs and Jellies by day ,as it runs by night f 17. Whether in fome 
warm days , in which the Sycxmere runs not at Noon or in the heat of the day , it run 
m the Night , or the Cool of the day , and, on the contrary,the Birch run by day or about 
Noon, and ccafe at Night or Sun-fet, in the fame feafons ? i8. The fame Queries 
snightalfobe profecuted in the Hop, which runs after the extream heat of the Sum- 
mer, after the Hops are ripe and gathered, or any other Flantj that runs in Summer or 
Au tumne , if there be any fuch. 
S» far the Inquiptive Do^or j9r M time : Torvhich vee cannot butfubjojntheLtt- 
ter of that l^orthy and obferving Gentleman y Mr, VVilloughby, containing an An- 
fvoer to fuch of the precedent remarfisani Inquiries^ as concerned him ^ and there- 
jQre T9tre imparted to him. It runs thm, 
A'irj'ti^ no wonder j that Dr ToKg^j Experiments concerning the Bleeding of the 5"/- 
sam^re do not agree wiihours , they being made in a different feafon ; his, in Fc bruary» 
and ours towards the end of March , viz the Gold , which caufed the IntreaCc of the 
bleeding in the sycamore and Walnut, hapned upon the zj. 24. 25. 26. March > 
jtnd one sycamtre , whicfi ccafcd to bleed from the i ith of the fame ^ ontb , bled afrcfh 
copioufly from wounds that had been made fo long before : The Buds before the cold 
were Juflieady to open into Leaves , and the .^ap h^d begun to coaguhte above a fort- 
night beloreK This year,making incifions in the Sycmore and common Maple, in fann- 
A /, immediately upon the releatingof the firft F/oft , we found that they hoxh bled, and 
faller , as the weather grew hotter V nor did the fuccccding Cold promote , but rather 
Wnder their bleeding. So that the Learned Dodordothmoft ingeni.ufly con/c<ftute, 
ihat the Afcentof ^'ap in Trees c'cpends up n a certain Degree of heat , fuffcient to r<iife,, 
Jbut not to CQ<ig«/<t;e their refpt^tivc Juyces. In tho(e Months , wherein ihe Heat (?r- 
iinjLrily falls fhort of that Degree > an accidental heat or warmth cfwcathe' prcmotes 
iha bleeding but in thole Months , wheiein the ordinary temper of the Air exueds that 
Dcgrecjan extraordinary fit of colder wcathei makes them bleed again. 
The Experiments-concerning ihc Northern md Southern fides of Sycamores v, ere nude 
ailhc fimetimc s md arc well folved-by the fame Hj'pc?]?^^/. 
In ;f^<z/»«I-rrees5. we never yet found , that Heat pronjo-ed their Weeding , but al- 
'fB^sCoW. Ffcmjiwoiindj made. w a /^akiut-t?cc j \n January 1 and the beginning* 
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