f 2*0 ) 
z> That one Seed, which grew on a Pear-tree^ 
in ^ 7^1, was the next Spring i /i|, loofened !rom the 
Trre ar one End, as the others were ; Yet this leed- 
ling Sprout, never put out any Leaves at all ; but 
continued in the fame flate, neither bigger nor lefs, 
near fix Years; that is, till it was brokenon by chance 
in July 1715. This Teems to me a very ftrange 
thing: For, a feedling Plant (oi any kind) is, but as 
it were an ’Emlryo^ till it have put forth Leaves. 
3. My mod thriving pair of Plants, of the Year 
171V, being about three Inches in length, were on 
the z\flo\ May 1721, druck off, by the falling of 
a Rake-handle againd them They took away with 
them, only the cutmod thin skin of the Tree,- and 
I could not fee any Tgns, of deeper Rooting. But 
as T looked, now and then, on the Place, where the 
had grown, I thought, I obferved the Bark 
to fwell up a little ; and on the iith of March 
172:, I perceived 3 or 4 little Budds, putting forth, 
and another Budd was put out by the i8r^ oi March, 
They all grew on, to have Leaves that Summer; 
and now Fehr, 1724, they are a Cluder of Boughs, 
of 4 or 5 Joints in heighth, and bore Berries this 
Winter ; whereas two others, on the fame Tree, and 
which were alfo fawn at the fame time, in 171^, 
and are 6 or 7 joynts in heighth, have not yet born 
any Berries . , . , . . 
I he thriving of thefe Plants, fo" well again, after 
they were broken od ; made me reded:, on the Druids 
way, oi cutting Mtjfdto from the with a Gold- 
en fndrument; a Metal not apt to take a good 
and podiblyi the bluntnefs of the Indrument, might 
be a means, to preferve, a future growth,^ of .the Tame 
Plant; v;hich, doubtlcfs, they as well as we, iind to 
be very rarely upon the Oak, I migtft fugged (bme 
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