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tree, which delights in, and bears bed i n a 

 ftrong brick earth clay 5 for tho' the Vine 

 bleeds moft freely in its feafon, produces 

 many long iucculent (hoots, and bears great 

 plenty of a very juicy fruit, yet from that 

 Experiment it is plain, that it is not a great 

 perfpirer, and therefore thrives beft in a dry, 

 rocky, or gravelly foil. 



The confidcrable quantity of moifture, 

 which by Experiment 16. is perfpired from 

 the branches of trees, during the cold win- 

 ter feafon, plainly (hews the reafon, why in 

 a long feries of cold north-caftcrly winds, 

 the bloffbms, and tender young fet fruit and 

 leaves, arc in the early fpring lb frequently 

 blafted, viz. by having the moifture exhaled 

 fafter than it can be fupplied from the trees $ 

 for doubtlcfs that moifture rifes the flower 

 from the root, the colder the feafon is, tho' 

 it rifes in fome degree all the winter, as is 

 evident from the fame Experiment. 



And from the fame caufe it is, that the 

 lca^y fpires of Corn are by thefe cold dry- 

 ing winds often faded and turned yellow* 

 which makes the Husbandman, on thefe oc- 

 cafions, wifli for fnow ; which tho' it be very 



cold, yet it not only defends the root from 



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