ded in their place; but what was cover'd over
beyond the places of incision with diachylon plaister, and also bound
as the rest, did within the space of three weeks, unite to the tree,
tho' with some shriveling and scar: The same experiment try'd about
Michaelmas, and in the Winter, came to nothing: Where some branches were
decorticated quite round, without any union, a withering of the branch
beyond the incision, ensu'd: Also a twig separated from a branch, with a
sloping cut, and fastn'd to it again in the same posture, bound and
cover'd with the former plaister, wither'd in three days time: Among
other easie remedies, a cere-cloth of fresh-butter and hony, apply'd
whilst the wound is green, (especially in Summer) and bound about with a
thrum-rope of moist hay, and rubb'd with cow-dung has healed many: But
for rare and more tender trees, after pruning, take purely refined
tallow, mingled and well harden'd with a little loamy earth, and
horse-dung newly made.

Dr. Plot speaks of an elm growing near the bowling-green at
Magdalen-College, quite round disbark'd almost for a yard near the
ground, which yet flourishes exceedingly; upon which he dilates into an
accurate discourse, how it should possibly be; all trees being held to
receive their nutrition between the wood and the bark, and to perish
upon their separation; this tree being likewise hollow as a drum, and
its outmost surface (where decorticated) dry, and dead. The solution of
this phaenomenon (and to all appearance, from the verdant head) could
not have been more philosophically resolv'd, than by the hypothesis
there produc'd by the Doctor, who assures me, he was yet deliberating
whether the tree being hollow, it might not possibly proceed from some
other latent cause, as afterwards he discover'd when having obtain'd
permission to open the body of it, he found another elm, letting down
its stem all the length of this empty case, and striking root when it
came to the earth, from whence it deriv'd nourishment, maintains a
flourishing top, and has (till now) pass'd for a little miracle, as it
still may do for a thing extraordinary, and rare enough; considering not
only its passage, and how it should come there, unless haply some of the
_samera_, or seed of the old tree (when pregnant) should have luckily
fallen down within the hollow pipe, or (as might be conjectur'd) from
some sucker springing of a juicy root: But the strange incorporating of
the superior part of t