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20. Delicate and light French Manchet, tosted, may possibly be also good for our Sapps.
21. For the clearing of what was delivered Num. 43. p. 858. about prickt Circles in Trees, it may be added, That those Circle are suppos'd to be at some time of the year of one single row or pricks, and at some season, of more, and at others, of solid wood. Quere, 1. What alteration is found in Circles of Pricks, or Wood, in Spring, at Midsummer, and in Autumn &c? 2. Whether these single or double Circles of pricks and coats of Ielly or wood, increase betwixt the inner and outward bark, or not? Or, betwixt the one. and both of the barks, i. e. on one or both tides of the inner bark? I conceive, it doth on both sides of the inner bark, so that in some thick outward Barks those Circles mayo be observ'd, as in Wood. 3. Whether the Tree receives increase in all its inner coats, so as every coat yearly grows thicker, or in the outtermost only, or in some of the outward coats also?
Dr. John Beals Instances
- Promised in Numb. 42. and intended to shew the Correspondence of the Pith and Timber, with the Seed of the Plant; and that of the Bark or Sap in the bark, with the Pulp of the Fruit, so some encompassing Coat, or Cod containing the Seed.
The Author having prefaced, that he can promise no Method in the following Communications, gives these Instances.
First saith he, I had an excellent Summer-Apple, containing abundance of very pleasing Iuyce. It was of that kind, which never grows large. The Body by the burthen of the fruit always wreath'd towards the ground; the Branches all curld, and full of knots at every turning; and these branches apt to grow, if a good knot be set in the ground, assoon as 'tis cut off, especially about Candel-masse. This Tree was hollow, and very near all the Timber extremely rotten from the top of the Stem to the root; and every sprigg, how small however, appear'd Cork-color'd and rotten at the heart of the Timber. And so it was generally all over the Roots; and 'tis like, it had been so many years before: Yet the Tree bore abun-
