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Rain and warmth, after cold and dry , 

 would make the fap rife all the next day, 

 without fubfiding, tho' it would rife then 

 floweft about noon ; becaufc in. this 

 cafe the quantity imbibed by the roor, and 

 raifed from it, exceeded the quantity pcr- 

 fpired. 



The fap begins to rife fooncr in the morn- 

 ing in cool weather, than after hot days $ 

 the rcafon of which may be, becaufe in hot 

 weather much being evaporated , it is not 

 (o foon fupplied by the roots as in cool wea- 

 ther, when left is evaporated. 



In a prime bleeding feafbn I fixt a tube 

 25 feet long to a thriving branch two years 

 old , and two feet from the ground, where 

 it was cut off} the lap flowed fo briskly, 

 as in two hours to flow over the top of the 

 Tube , which was 7 feet above the top of 

 the Vine ; and doabtlefs would have rifen 

 higher, if I had been prepared to lengthen 

 the tube. 



When at the difrance of 4 or 5 days, 

 tubes were affixed to two different branches, 

 which came from the fame llcm, the fap 

 would rife higheft in that which was lalt fix- 

 ed $ yet if in the fixing the fcoond tube there 



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