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reft of the body. The following year th 

 upper fplintcr x was grown very much, but 

 the lower fplinter z did not grow, but the 

 reft of the body grew, as if there had been no 

 ga(h made: I have not yet fucceeded in ma- 

 king this Experiment , the wind having 

 broken at x z all the trees I prepared for 

 it: But if there was a Cud at a? which foot 

 out leaves, and none at z, then by Exper. 

 41. 'tis plain, that thofe leaves might draw 

 much nourifhment thro' t x, and thereby 

 make it grow j and I believe, if, vice verfa, 

 there were a leaf bearing Bud at z, and none 

 at x, that then the fplinter z would grow 

 more than x. 



The reafon of my conjecture, I ground 

 upon this Experiment, viz. I chofe two 

 thriving moots of a dwarf 'Pear-tree 11 a a. 

 Fig. 28, 29. At three quarters of an inch 

 diftance I took half an inch breadth of bark 

 off each of them , in feveral places, viz. 

 2, 4, 6, 8, and at 10, 12, 14. every one of 

 the remaining ringlets of bark had a leaf 

 bearing bud, which produced leaves the fol- 

 lowing fummer, except the ringlet I3> which 

 had no fuch Bud. The ringlet 9 and il 



of a a grew and fwelled at their bottoms, 



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