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uptt Bark quickly fwillmg downward, md joyning again 
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It was alfo obfervable, that af the upper Bark grew 
downwards ; fo it increafed alio in thicknefs ^whereas th© 
Bark below the Sedion thickaed not at all . 
Several of thofe Bows, which were about one Inch in 
Diameter, and had increafed, as above the Summer before 
wereobfcrved to out Hve the great Froft, and to receive 
no confiderable Damage ; whereas many others other wife 
ordered, were killed by it, as will appear by and by^ more 
particularly. 
In the firft F/g. is reprelented a Scotch Firr of three 
Years growth ( it fhooting forth every Year, both from 
the Body, and the Branches a new Joynt and circumam- 
bient Sprouts, to a determinate length) barked with three 
Rings, of about I i Inch broad, each about the middle of 
the Internodia or parts of the Stock between the Joynts, 
at c a this in one Year increafed and fhot forth bran- 
chings, as in the fecond Fig. that is the Stock at^, which 
was about the bignefs of a Quill, below the Ring to the 
next Joynt continued of the fame bignefs, but above the 
Ring it increafed and grew, to the bignefs of ones Finger, 
and from the new Joynt at e (hot out new Limbs and 
Stock ai)0Ut a quarter of a Yard, v/hich was fe)mewhat 
bigger, than if there had been no Ring made. Next the 
Branches// increafed Hkewife proportionably, by fwell- 
ing in bignefs, and from a new Joynt fhooting out new 
Body and Limbs, as the Top or Body ; and the Body of 
the Tree below the Joynt to the Ring increafed more 
, than if the Ring had not been made ; but the part of the 
Stock below the Ring to the next Joynt, increafed not at 
all. The like (hooting forth and increafing, was obfervcd 
in tht^d. Limbs Joynt and Stock below it gg, i to c, be- 
tween which and it increafed not. 
The like alfo fucceeded in the lower Branches I /, and 
Joynt and in the Stock d, below the Joynt 
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