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An Experiment 
Of making Cherry-T rees , that have withered 
fruit , to bear full and good fruit • and of 
Recovering the almojl withered fruit. 
Communicated by the fame , as follows * 
A Nno 1665 , I made the following Experiment with 5 May- 
Cherry-Trees (planted in a rich Mould) which lay to a 
South-wall 5 (haded 4 Winter-Moneths from the Sun by 
a high Building , fo that the Sun came not on them , till thebe- 
ginning of March , when being high , and (Lining fomewhat fierce- 
ly upon them , the fruit conftantly withered for fome years be- 
fore. Now this year, the feafon being very hot and dry , I bared 
^herootsof one of therm, by making a hole about it , and watered 
it every Morning and Evening with about a Gallon of water, for 
about a fortnight before the Cherries came to rednefs, and the 
(fruit was full and good. The other two Trees , left without this 
ordering, hadmoftof their fruit withered, having onely skin and 
ftones. Now to try this Experiment farther, I made a hole round 
about one of the other Trees , and fed it with water daily , as the 
(former : In a W eeks time , thofe that were quite withered, fell off, 
and the reft, that were notfo, grew and increafed exceedingly* 
•the other Tree, that was not ufed after this manner , had not any 
of its fruit come to perfe&ion. 
An Experiment 
On Aloe Americana Serrati-folia weighed • 
feeming to import a Circulation of the Sappe 
in Plants , by the fame d) r. Merret. 
1 A %»/ 4. 1656. this Aim weighed 21 ounces , 6 Drams , 
f x 2 Grains. Its colour was of a pale-green , confifting of n 
Leaves ; it was bound about with a red dry Cloth, aod was hung 
ip without Oil, as is ufual, in the Kitchin, 
