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An Account of fewral curious Obfir^ations and Expe- 
riments^ concerning the Growth of Trees , made 
Thomas Brorherton, of Hey, in the County 
^j^ Lancafter, £/^. Brought in and Read before 
the R. S. by R . H. Fellovp of the faid Society. 
The Experiments and Ohfervations^ were made at Hey, in the 
County of ^znc2&QY, 
THe firft Experiment was made in the Year 1671," 
upon a Cr^^ Tree, about four Inches in Diameter ; 
it was hacked round with a Hatchet, fb as to cut pretty 
deep into the Wood, befides the cutting off of the Bark, 
for about four Inches wide. After which it was the fame 
Year obftrved to increaft above the laid hacking very con- 
fiderably, and to flioot in length of Wood, about one 
Foot ; the next Year it increafed confiderabiy, and fhot 
in length about nine Inches : But the third Year it dyed to 
the very Root. 
Much the like was obferved in another, part of whole 
Bark was eaten off by a Canker, that the lower part flood, 
without increafingf, and by degrees the Wood rotted 
and mortifyed ; but the upper part increafed to the 3^. 
year when it Dyed alfb. 
Moft of the following Experiments, were tryed on the 
Abies or Scotch-Firr, and on the black PopUr with white 
Rark, and on W/r^e'/ and jyi? Trees. 
A Smch'Firr of three Years growth, having a Ring of 
the Bark cut off, of the breadth of three Inches, near the 
tx)ttom of the Stem or Stalk, below the upermoll: Kaot or 
Joynt, was obferved to grow and llioot out its Top, about 
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