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day, after cutting, lefs pervious, not only f or 

 water, but alio for the fap of the vine, which 

 never paiTes to and fro fo freely thro' the 

 tranfverfe cut , after it has been cut 3 or 4, 

 days, as at firft j probably, becaufc the cut 

 capillary veiTels are fTirunk, the veficlcs alfo, 

 and interftices between them, being faturate 

 and dilated with cxtravafated fap, much more 

 than they are in a natural Irate. 



If I cut an inch or two off the lower 

 part of the ftem, which has been much fatu- 

 rated by Handing in water, then the branch 

 will imbibe water again afrefh 5 tho' not al- 

 together fo freely, as when the branch was 

 tirft cut off the tree. 



I repeated the fame experiment as this 22d, 

 upon a great variety of branches of feveral 

 fizes and of different kinds of trees, fome 

 of the principal of which arc as follow, 





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Experiment XXIII. 





July 6th and 8th, I repeated the fame ex- 

 periment with feveral &rccn flioots of the 

 Vine, of this year's growth, each of them 

 full two yards long. 



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