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I.' Account of fome new Experiments , relating to 
the different ^ and fometmes contrary Motion of 
the Sap in (plants and Trees , made by Thomas 
Fairchild, Gardener at Hoxton. : J 
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I H A D the Honour, fome Years ago, to {hew fome 
Experiments before the Royal Society , and they 
were pleafed to allow the Experiments to be new: and 
ufeful ‘ which encouraged me ro try further, and bring 
more Experiments, in order to fhew the Courfe of the 
Sap • which I find, by Experience, will be fo ufeful, 
that I can make barren Trees fruitful, and decaying 
Trees healthful, and render the Syftem of Gardening 
and Planting more ufeful to the- PubJick. T: ; ‘ 
The firft Plant I fhewed was the Laureola , grafted 
upon the Mezereon , and the Evergreen Oak of Virgi- 
nia upon the common Englijh Oak\ both which hold 
their Leaves all the Winter, and are in good State- and 
flourifhing, though grafted on Plants that drop their 
Leaves in Winter j which plainly proves that the Juices 
rife upwards, in Winter, in thofe Plants that drop their 
Leaves, otherwife the Evergreens that are grafted on 
them would foon perifh. 
I believe by grafting the Variety of foreign Oaks on 
the Englijh , we might make the Timber more firm 
and lafting, than it is in its own Nature, when raifed 
from foreign Acorns i For as the Crab- Stock maketh 
die Wood of the Apple-Tree mote' firm and lafting than 
that on the Apple-Stockyand the Peaches and Almonds, 
budded on Plums, are more lafting than thofe on Peadi- 
Stocks *, fo by the contrary Rule, all firm Timber, 
Vol. XXXIII. U grafted 
