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S.Whether a Tree may be made to bear the jf ^y? year,by drawing 
a branch thorough apor, the branch being firft pricked with a 
' knife fo far as it is to ftand in thepot,and then watering it for 7 or 
8 days, to make the branch- flioot roots • further , cutting the 
branch from the Tree in March nexr, and knocking the pot away 
from about it, and fo putting the branch together with the Earth 
into another good foil 
9. Whether Trees maybe fecured from froft,by digging them a« 
bout in March^diud powring water from time to time into that hoi- 
lownefs, and keeping it about the roots till the blofibm-time be 
paftjor by puttingjin the Spring,a pot full of water upon the Tree, 
or under it, whereby the froft will fall into that veflel,and leave the 
Tree unhurt? 
10. Whether Corn ground to flower in Jamarj/ and February 
will keep longer gpod^and free from muftinefs, than at other times ? 
1 1 ♦Whether flower, kneaded and baked as foon as it comes from, 
the Mill,whilft *cis yet warm,yields blacker and worfer bread <? 
1 2 .Whether flower,ground in February and March^iht Moon be» 
ing but 3 or 4 days old,will laft many years good 
1 3. Whether Wheat and Rey, fprinkled with cold water before 
it be carried to the Mill, and ground the next morning, yields whi- 
ter bread - though it dulls the ftones ? 
14. Wh(£ther Barley or Peare,burnt in a pan till they growalmoft 
hard^and then put in Wine,will makegood Vineger in 2 or 3 days f 
15. Whether the Seed of Garlick put into Vineger that is yen 
frefi},wiU reduce it in 3 or 4 days into Wine again. 
1 6. Whether the boyling of Vineger,and that in an earthen Veflel, 
will always keepitgood,and preferve it from corruption ? 
I y.Whet her Bierinay be kept from fowring in Summer,by hang- 
ing into the vefTel a bagg containing a new laid egg (prickt with a 
pin full of little holes,>nd fome L awrel-berries and a few barlej^- 
grains, put together : Or by hanging into the vefielonly a new laid 
Egg and fome leaves of a Walnut-tree ? And whether Lawrel-ber- 
ries alone,their skin being peeled off,will keep Bier from deadnefii? 
And whether ftale Bier will be made new and frefli again, by grind- 
ing fmail theaflies of Beech or Birch- trees,and taking as many hand- 
fulsof them,as you have fuch Bier-veflels, and thickning them with 
fome of fuch Bier to the confifience ofpnlfe, and fo powring it to- 
gether into thofe veflels^ftlrring thennvell,and then letting it fettle? 
I S.Whether Bier taftingof the cask may be freed of that taftc bv 
putting fome grains of wheat in a bagg^and hanging it in the veffelr* 
i^.Whe- 
