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[Vegetable Stattch. 



The JefTamine in the fame time the f p art 



The Philarea decreafed the 5 part in 5 

 days. 



The Laurel the \ part in 5 days, and more. 



Here is a considerable daily wade of fan 

 which mull: therefore neceflarily be fuppli et { 

 from the root ; whence it is plain that fonie 

 fap rifes all the winter, to fupply this conti- 

 nual wade , tho' in much lefs quantity than 

 in fummer. 



Hence we fee good reafon why the Ilex, 

 (and the Cedar oiLibanns, which were the 

 ffcft on an Englijh-03k t t\\c other on the Larix) 

 were verdant all the winter, notwithfrand- 

 ing the oak and Larix leaves were decayed 

 and fallen off; for tho' when the winter 

 came on, there did not fap enough rife to 

 maintain the Oak and Larix leaves, yet by 

 this prefent experiment we fee, that'fome 

 fap is continually riling all the winter j and 

 by experiment the 5 th on the Lime-tree, and 

 by fcvcral other the like experiments , on 

 many forts of evcr-greens, we find that they 

 pcrfpiring little, live and thrive with little 

 flourifhment; the Ilex and Cedar might 

 well therefore continue green all the win- 

 ter , notwithstanding the leaves of the trees 



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