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whereby the body and branches of the ve- 

 Z ble which have been much cxhaufted by 

 the arcat evaporation of the day, may at 

 nig ht D imbibe lap and dew from the leaves; 

 for by feveral Experiments in the nrft chap- 

 ter, plants were found to increafe confidcr- 

 ablv in weight, in dewy and moid nights. 

 And by other Experiments on the Vine in 

 the third chapter , it was found, that the 

 trunk and branches of Vines were always 

 in an imbibing date, caufed by the great per- 

 fpiration of the leaves, except in the bleed- 

 ing feafon j but when at night that perfpir- 

 ing power ceafes, then the contrary imbib- 

 ing power will prevail and draw the fap 

 and dew from the leaves, as well asmoifture 



from the roots. 



And we have a further proof of this in 

 Experiment 12, where by fixing mercurial 

 gages to the flems of feveral trees, which 

 dcTnot bleed, it is found, that they are al- 

 ways in a ftrongly imbibing ftatc, by draw- 

 ing up the mercury feveral inches : Whence 

 it is eafie to conceive, how fome of the par- 

 ticks of the gilded Bud, in the inoculated 

 ]effamine,may be abforbed by it, and there- 

 by communicate their gilding Miafma to the 

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