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and Woods but betwixt every cioatof the Wood, and even 
through the rnoft folid parts of ea6h Coat y as M)\lVilloughby% 
Obfervationshavedifcover dj ^ unlefs I miftake* ^ ^^^^^^^ 
The Experiment of the fiid Glocejler pire Piao- j^z. p.'^lT'^ 
ter, by which he hoped to gather aii the Fvifing 
Sap ot Fruit-trees^ was made, b}^ binding the Trees round a- 
bout very clofely and ftrongly with cords^ To as to intercept 
whatrifcth 'twixt Bark and Body 5 he being ofopioion;jthat r.o 
confiderabie quantity rifeth in any other parr* To which I op- 
pofe^ beiidcs what v^as laid juft now, that fome Trees will Jive 
though they be disbarked in fome place quite round 5 efpici- 
aljy ifthis bedone in fome feafon, when the blafting Vv^rnds 
ilir oot5 which / have elfewhere difcourfed of in my Letters 
to Sir R, M, 
Mean time, though this Planter feem to me to miftake in the 
Riting of Sap^ yet he maketh it up by difcoveriog to us 5 that 
(lich Tying oi Trees retards their Bloffbming and Bearing | 
andfo may in fome yeais ( as this prefent 5 in which the open 
weather haftening bloflbmsjs like to dtftroy the fruit)prevent 
a fcarcity offorward fruit,ufually nipped by the late Frofts. 
Upon this difcourie /(hall take leave to fuggeft thefe fol- 
lowing Inquiries : 
1. Whether two Trees, running, when both are free and 
untiedjequal quantines ofSapat like orifices of equal breadth 
2nd depth, will run unequally, when ftrongly tied ; and iffo^ 
what will be the difference ? 
2. Whether the fiid Trees will run unequal quantities at 
equal orifices made in Roots i 
Whether the delay of Sap 5 ftaying Fruit and Bloflbms^ 
asisfuppos'djby tyingj wiil cure the ?h)Uo-mama ^ '^^ Crols- 
hacking 
4. WhetheraTret kept wholly from bearing this year (its 
ufua! bearing year) will bear the next.and fo to better adv: 0» 
tagej when fruit is fcarce ? • 
5^ Whether by this wayjTrees m.ay be brought to bear at 
ether fealbns, than yet hath been pra^tifed ? 
" 6. Whether tykig of Trees, made bcfi.'re Mid fummer^ can- 
feththeBark to iwellz/^^i^er the Ligature, and after Mid-lum- 
Yfstr^^ahovtix} and whether equally, or by what difltTtnt pro- 
portions? 
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