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ft icks,//^F lg .,S, 2 p. thcbarkfwcllcd 



m orc at the upper part of the disbark d 

 places than at the lower, ni* becaufc thole 

 lower parts were thereby deprived of the 

 plenty of nouriftiment which was brought 

 to the upper parts of thofc difablcd places, 

 by the ltrong attraaion of the leaves on 



the Buds 7, #&• o f which wc have a fur " 

 thcr confirmation in the ringlet of bark 

 K°. 13. Fig. 29. which ringlet did not fwell 

 or grow at either end, being not only de- 

 prived of the attraction of the fupcrior leaves, 

 by the bared placed N°. 12. but alio with, 

 out any leaf Bud of its own, whofc branch- 

 ing fap Vellels, being like thofc of other leaf 

 Buds rooted downwards in the wood, might 

 thence draw fap, for the nourifhment of its 

 felf and the adjoining bark N°. 13. But had 

 thefe rooting fap veiTcls run upwards,' in- 

 ftead of downwards, 'tis probable, that in 

 that cafe the upper part of each ringlet of 

 bark, and not the lower, would have fwelled, 

 by having nourifhment thereby brought to 

 it from the inmoft wood. 



We may hence alfo fee the reafon why, 

 when a tree is unfruitful* it is brought to 

 bear fruit, by the taking ringlets of bark off 



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